Backup solutions

[Roman Volf]

mike at lanline.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 	I'm looking into several backup options for my site.  We have a
> mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment.  We recently got a 2TB server and
> I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups.  I was either
> considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data
> to the remote file system or possibly using bacula.  Amanda is out,
> because I'm not really interested in pushing the stuff to tape.
> 	So, I'm pretty much down to bacula and the standard unix tools.
> Bacula looks cool, but it seems like it maybe unnecessarily complicated
> and bulky (btw, i also do have a few w2k servers that can be backed using
> bacula's client :( ).  Anyone with a similar situation or experience with
> bacula?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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Check out BackupPC. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ . It uses rsync/ssh 
and does incremental backups and has a nifty GUI to monitor the backups 
of all the servers.

I use it to backup about 8 servers and it works really well.

-- 
Roman Volf
Keystreams Internet Solutions
volfman at keystreams.com