Matt Mossholder on 10 Sep 2007 04:07:10 -0000 |
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 21:48 -0400, Paul L.Snyder wrote: > I'm finally getting around to setting up a backup system for all the > various machines around my house. Any recommendations as to a good > package to use? > > The backup server is Linux-based, and most of the clients are Linux > as well. The option to backup Mac OS and Windows would be nice, but > is not critical. The ability to deal intelligently with laptop > clients, on the other hand, is a sine qua non, as is a FOSS solution. > > I'd like something that runs a bit faster than rsync, if possible. > Currently, I'm running manual rsyncs whenever I happen to remember > to do so. Ideally, I'd like to install the client on the various > machines and forget about it, other than having the server mail the > logs to me so I can make sure that everything is continuing to run > smoothly. > > Bacula looks like it has a lot of moving parts. Has anybody played > with rdiff-backup? > > Thanks, > Paul You might give BackupPC a try... it has several different methods of performing the backups (rsync, rsync/ssh, filesystem, CIFS, etc.), and is intended for disk based backups. It also has the nice feature of presenting each backup as "full", by hard-linking the identical files. No need to determine which backup set has a particular file in it. Packages are available in most distributions. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net --Matt ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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