[mdlug] Backup Solutions

[Dan Pritts]

definitely take a look at backuppc.

Note that it is basically a client/server sort of thing, rather than
a "back up a single host to an external drive" sort of thing, although
i think with the right configuration you could make it work that way.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:00:24PM -0400, Robert Adkins II wrote:
> I would like to review something that is a little more "automatic" than what
> I am using right now.
>  
> What am I using right now? Custom scripts to copy data from the live server
> to the back-up external Hard Drives, manually confirming the backups and
> swapping out the external drives every couple of days.
>  
> What I would like to see/use is a simple GUI (For those times when I am on
> vacation so that I can put the task into the hands of a "skilled" user.)
> that can show what has been backed up, what needs to be backed up and may
> have features for things like incremental backups and also some of kind of
> basic version control so that if certain files that are updated daily
> suddenly become irrevocably corrupt, there will be a copy at least 24 hours
> old that can be restored.
>  
> Is there anything that features any of the above currently available either
> OSS or commercially available for Linux? 
> 
> 
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> Regards, 
> Rob
> 
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