[TriLUG] A good Linux based backup program...

[Jonathan Woodbury]

Do you have any particular requirements?

Do you want incremental backups? Encrypted backups? A mirror style backup
for easy access? Depending on what solution you consider you'll probably
need to weigh disk space usage on the backup media vs. how fast you'll be
able to do certain types of restores.

I will say, that my favorites for HD based backups are rdiff-backup and
duplicity (if you need encryption or compression). Both are not commercial,
but hopefully that's not a deal breaker.

On 5/24/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bacula.  To be honest I haven't tried it myself but I hear it is very
> good.
>
>
> Greg
>
> On 5/24/06, dsandif <dsandif at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I might have asked about this before but I'll ask again anyway. Does any
> > one know of a good backup program for Linux? I am not using tapes\tape
> > drives, only usb hard drives attached to do my backups. I have tried
> > fsbackup and it fails at certain points so I'm thinking that I should
> > probably start looking at something more commercially proven. I've been
> > pouring over these two links below to get some idea of whats out there
> > and would like to hear what  you good folks out there recommend? Thxs.
> >
> >
> >
> > D-
> >
> > http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Backup/  and
> > http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administration/Backup.html
> >
> >
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