[LUAU] Recommended FOSS network backup tool

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Fri Nov 2 13:49:25 PDT 2007


There are several at sourceforge. Amanda looks interesting. Why don't
you tell us about your experience after you get something set up? Wish
I knew more.
Dave

On 11/2/07, R. Scott Belford <scott at hosef.org> wrote:
> 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
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