On 1/12/2011 3:27 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Lisandro Grullon > <lgrullon at citytech.cuny.edu> wrote: >> Hi Sven, >> I like your line "This software is really crap!" I am a victim of this >> "crap" myself. What do you personally use to backup your boxes, it would be >> great to know since I am looking for an alternative. > > The last time I was given a choice, I used rsnapshot to back up to > cheap, live disks with snapshots for NFS based file recovery, and > Amanda to back up last snapshots to tape. Backuppc is good for online backups - it uses compression and pooling to hold much more history than you'd expect for the space. It can also copy these off to tape or archive media as tar images but that's sort of an afterthought. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com