[LUAU] Recommended FOSS network backup tool

[R. Scott Belford]

Julian Yap wrote:
> Normally I use command line tools to do network backups.  eg.
> rsync, mysqldump
> 
> It works but it's time for a dedicated tool to remove the
> thought cycles.  Also tools can have pretty graphs.
> 
> Does anyone have any FOSS network backup tools that they swear
> by?
> 
> Main requirements:
>  - Simple to configure new backups
>  - Supports multiple backup types.  eg. Files, MySQL, etc...
>  - Creates reports.  eg. HTML pages you can look at
>  - Optionally emails reports

I am not sure that it will handle requirement 2, but Backuppc is pretty 
good.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html

> 
> 
> Julian

--scott