[thelist] Backing up linux machine

Phil Turmel pturmel-webdev at turmel.org
Thu Aug 28 06:17:29 CDT 2008


I'm kinda' surprised no one mentioned Bacula[1].  The authors seem to
have put a great deal of effort into documenting restore procedures,
including disaster recovery.

Phil

[1] http://www.bacula.org/

Ken Schaefer wrote:
> Oddly enough, OP didn't ask about ease/simplicity of restoration, which is usually the more important :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Ken
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]
>> On Behalf Of sbeam
>> Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2008 3:14 AM
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> Subject: Re: [thelist] Backing up linux machine
>>
>> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 02:06, Martin Burns wrote:
>>>> The server is running Centos 4. I can't find anything on there to
>>>> incrementally backup the machine - we're planning on using cronjob to
>>>> automate this so we have the automation bit planned out. Can anyone
>>>> recommend a program to do this, or commands or maybe a tutorial?
>>>> Searching
>>>> google provides limited results - I assume I'm not searching the right
>>>> terms.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Martin
>>




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