I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. What do people use to backup Centos systems? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
On 2008-09-29 14:26, Timothy Murphy wrote:> I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC > does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. > > What do people use to backup Centos systems?Actually BackupPC does run on CentOS without any problem. I use BackupPC hosted on a CentOS 5.2 server to backup some Windows laptops. On the other hand the Unix machines, including the CentOS machines, while they could be served by a BackupPC server as well, I do those backups using Amanda, mostly because that is what I used for more than 8 years now, and because we need tapes as well. Amanda never left me in the cold, even after terrible hard disk crashes or operator mistakes. -- Paul Bijnens, xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, * * F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On BehalfOf>Timothy Murphy >Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:26 PM >To: centos at centos.org >Subject: [CentOS] BackupPC > >I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC >does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. > >What do people use to backup Centos systems?Rdiff maybe? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5118 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080929/703e73bb/attachment-0001.bin>
Timothy Murphy wrote:> I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC > does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. > > What do people use to backup Centos systems? >you can use rsync which uses ssh but is faster than scp because it only transfers the change between two files.
On Monday, September 29, 2008 1:26 PM +0100 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:> I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC > does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system.I got it from the testing repo. I use it to back up Windows servers to my Linux server.> What do people use to backup Centos systems?To back up the Linux server, I use dump and direct the output to a file on a removable USB drive formatted as ext3. I rotate drives the way one might rotate tapes. I've been using dump since 1989, when I had a Sun 386i. Both BackupPC and dump have their own support infrastructure. <http://dump.sourceforge.net/> <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/>