On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny)I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations?
If they are all linux boxes, and you aren't hung up on backing up to tape, I like rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org/>
It uses just perl, rsync and hard links. Works well for small setups because the backups aren't munged or filed or tar'd up - restore is just a matter of moving files back. Backing up to disk makes for easy access, and you can back that up to an external drive or over the internet for offsite copies.
That in combination with mondorescue (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) for bare metal recovery has served me well. (lots of lightly used linux desktops in various locations)
Doesn't work with Windows or Mac very well though... Brian
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