Linux backup

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Thu Aug 19 16:02:25 UTC 2004


On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:54, Mark Dadgar wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Wayne Pinette wrote:
> > For network backup solutions, Amanda works quite nicely, is easy to
> > install and to get working, and is pretty darn reliable
> > as far as backups and backup reporting goes.
>
> But amanda won't back up to anything but tape without a lot of hacking,
> which is a real bummer considering how little disk costs these days
> (and how much faster it is than tape).

I use rsnapshot to do network backup of 4 linux servers to one machine with 
big storage space running RAID 5. Since I don't need permanent/long term 
archive, this backing up to disk drive works wonderfully.

http://www.rsnapshot.org

RDB 

-- 
Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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