[CentOS] BackupPC

Mon Sep 29 12:46:10 UTC 2008
Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com>

On 2008-09-29 14:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC
> does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.
> 
> What do people use to backup Centos systems?

Actually BackupPC does run on CentOS without any problem.
I use BackupPC hosted on a CentOS 5.2 server to backup some Windows
laptops.

On the other hand the Unix machines, including the CentOS machines,
while they could be served by a BackupPC server as well, I do those
backups using Amanda, mostly because that is what I used for more
than 8 years now, and because we need tapes as well.

Amanda never left me in the cold, even after terrible hard disk
crashes or operator mistakes.

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