[CentOS] Remote backup of server

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Johnny Hughes<johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 09/04/2009 11:45 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:

>> Backuppc is ideal for this - it not only uses rsync over ssh for the
>> xfer (along with some other choices) but it keeps the files compressed
>> and uses hardlinks to de-duplicate the storage so you can keep a much
>> longer history on line than you would expect.  There's an rpm in epel,
>> home page is here: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

> I agree with Les on this ... if you are looking to do those kind of
> backups, backuppc is very good.  I use it in production at several places.

There is also a CentOS wiki article on backuppc:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC

Akemi