+1 for Backuppc..... On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've built a new backup server for our linux-clients. > > > > Is Amanda the way to go for a backup-solution? > > > > It seems to be pretty powerful, if a bit finickety to set up initially. > > > > The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two > > folders on an older server that rolls over every other week. This worked > fine > > for a while, but the rsync is cumulative and the users generate a > tremendous > > amount of data every day after having had a client upgrade with newer and > > hilariously fast computers for calculation. The previous *nix-admin set > it up > > this way with rsync, meaning that we in the long run have data that is > way > > obsolete and get increasingly difficult to maintain. > > > > As the backup solution must be next to free, ie "free beer", Amanda looks > > suitable. > > > > What do you use for backing up data? > > Backuppc is good for this - it can use rsync for the transfers (or tar or > smb) > but all duplicate data is compressed and pooled even if found on different > machines and it has an easy setup to control how long old copies are > retained. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100113/5cd0b10b/attachment-0005.html>