Fedora based Backup system

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Oct 1 16:36:53 UTC 2008


Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 15:58:04 Seann Clark wrote:
>> All,
>>
>>     I have played with various backup programs and tools over the years
>> that are free with Linux (namely Amanda)  and I am wondering if there is
>> a good, multi O/s tool that is out there, that would support various
>> Unix's (I know Amanda does that) and windows systems. My other question
>> is what would be the best backup plan to use? Hard drives? Tapes? DVD's?
>> (Bluray are great @25GB, but suck at US$259 for a 20 pack of them.)
>>
>>     Right now I am using G4L on all my Windows systems, and Amanda on my
>> *nix platforms, and have had mixed results. When my windows systems are
>> running it can be hit or miss that it gets anywhere with the
>> creation/moving of the image over to the storage system (Which is RAID5,
>> and needs a better backup plan for its 2.8TB+ of total storage) and I am
>> polling the list to get ideas on a better solution that is
>> free/inexpensive for a SOHO setup. I know hard drives in external
>> enclosures is a good bet for some applications (I think of
>> laptop/desktop backups with that solution) but any better/different
>> suggestion would be appreciated
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Seann
> 
> Personally I use BackupPC to back up Linux/Mac servers and Linux/Windows 
> desktops/laptops. It is primarly for online ( disk ) backups but has an 
> archive function as well.
> 
> There are Fedora rpms for it available in th Everything repo and the source is 
> available on sourceforge < http://backuppc.sourceforge.net >  I tend to use 
> the source as it's easy to set up and allows me to configure the backup 
> directories as I like.
> 
> Tony
> 

We also use BackupPC at work for corporate backups. It works great.

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Robin Laing




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