Backup utilities?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 20/10/2007, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli at gmail.com> wrote:
>      Dear friends,
>
>   What are some popular tools for backing up the file system? Is dump
> still popular? What are alternatives?
>

BackupPC
rsync
rdiff-backup
Bacula
afbackup
amanda

Plus many others. My personal favourites are rsync and rdiff-backup. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_software

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