Backup Systems
ronald
rwarsow at online.de
Fri Sep 8 22:17:45 UTC 2006
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I want to back up a modest home system -- about 120GB storage, about
> 70GB currently in use onto a (brand new) external 300GB USB hard drive.
> This should be done in a systematic way so that a modest number of old
> (incremental ?) backups are available.
>
> There are a number of applications available to do this, in particular:
> amanda
> backuppc
> bacula
> These are all intended for backup from a client to a server. Is there
> any reason for the client and the server not to be the same machine? Is
> this overkill -- will a little script with rsync or whatever do the job?
???
>
> There's also
> dump
> but this seems to be intended mostly for backup to tape. Is this
> impression of dump correct?
???
>
> Thanks - jon
>
>
take a look at
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
--
hope that helps. let me know if *not*.
ronald
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