On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm building a raid box to use for backups, connectivity will be either > USB3 or esata. > > Looking for suggestions on backup software I can use. > > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. I also find backupPC > at epel, backintime also at epel, kbackup. > > DejaDup looks interesting, but none of the repos I'm set up to use > shows it being available. > > some small details: I plan to use this to keep backups of my centos > desktop, which has two 320GB drives in linux RAID-1. The backup box will > have two 1TB drives, also in RAID-1. It will be a two drive enclosure > with PS and cooling, with USB3 or esata, but not networking. > > I was thinking that it would be nice to have a full backup followed by > a set of incrementals, and software that allows access to the state of > the system for any specific date (similar to a source control system), > but it may be that nothing free and/or uncomplicated will offer such > a feature. > > But, as I always say, "suggestions welcomed!" Try backuppc first. And don't overthink the full/incremental numbers until you understand how it compresses and pools the data. You will be able to keep much more history than you expect on line. Backuppc has its own mail list - you can ask there if you have any problems but the EPEL package should 'just work'. Just look at /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf for an example of how to set the web user passwords. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com