On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/11/2011 5:01 PM, Alfredo Perez wrote: >> Thanks, I think I was trying to kill a fly with a Bazuca > > Someone already mentioned rsync for copies, but if you want to keep a > longer history of backups online you might like backuppc. > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Or "rsnapshot", which is very lightweight and works very well. If you have security concerns, you can also use "rssh" woith it. I find it very useful to rsnapshot to an NFS server, which my users can then access with their normal privileges to recover files without my having to load tapes or install backup clients for them.