Re: backups

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:06:01PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:11:32PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and
> > want to do backups, weekly I guess.  Any suggestions on software to do
> > this?  I am not familiar with unix backups.
> "There is more than one way to do it"
> Out there are several solutions.
> The free solutions are self made shell Scripts with
> tar/cpio/taper/bzip2 etc.

And for multiple machines, AMANDA works great.  (ie, put a tape drive on
one machine, let everyone else back up to that... amanda will schedule
the rotation for you.)

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