[CentOS] Centos backup tools

[Arun Khan]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Derrik Walker v2.0 <dwalker at doomd.net> wrote:
>>
> I've been using BackupPC for years.  I currently have it running on a
> small CentOS system that mainly does backups.
>
> I like it because it's agentless ( it uses ssh/rsync ).  The Pooling and
> Data-deduping is also nice, and saves on space.
>

+1 to backuppc.

A word of caution - database backups should be done with their
respective native tools.  A colleague, was backing up /var/lib/mysql/
thinking he could restore the db from the backup!

-- Arun Khan