On 11/5/2013 5:06 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Do we have other options than BackupPC on CentOS that might work better? the only reason to say it doesn't handle those usecases well is that each incremental will probably backup the whole file so it won't dedup at all... well, ANY backup system will be faced with the same problem. other open source backup systems include things like Amanda, Bacula, which are more tape oriented, although they can be used with disk archives. Amanda uses tar for the actual backups, and manages/tracks an archive of tar files. These use agents tha thave to be installed on the client systems, while backuppc usually uses ssh+rsync so you just need to do a ssh key exchange with the target (but on a per target basis it can be configured to use various other methods) -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast