Backup Systems

[ronald]

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