BackupPC

[Thomas Kappelmueller]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a reasonably-recent Fedora-oriented tutorial or howto 
> on BackupPC anywhere on the net?
> (I have been reading the widely-cited Debian tutorial
> at <http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc>.)
> 
> I've been backing up with a rather simple-minded rsync script,
> but thought I'd go over to something more sophisticated.
> 
> I wonder what alternative backup programs people would recommend
> for Fedora-8, and if possible for CentOS-5.1 too.
> (Sadly, BackupPC does not seem to be available for CentOS.)
> 
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
> 
> 

Hi!

I have been using "rdiff-backup" for about 1 year now.

It does differential backups and it is very easy to use and setup.

Sadly there is no package in CentOS.

I checked, it is a python script. Shouldn't be a problem to port it to 
CentOS.

-Tom