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Re: Backup Strategies for linux?



On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:14:38PM +0530, Deboo wrote:
>    What is the best way to backup on linux, with a 250M zip drive? I
>    have tried many backup programs but I wish to have something
>    semi-automatic kind of thing. I have used ibackup, bu (script),
>    kbackup, floppybackup, and few others but am not satisfied with
>    them. What I need is something that would regularly (thru cron or
>    anacron or something else), compress the dir in to a zip file,
>    optionally encrypt it, copy it on to a zip disk and then log on to
>    a webdav or ftp server and transfer this file automatically there?
>    What is the best way to have this kind of backup done?
> 
>   What different backup strategies are there on linux and what is the
>   best one? Is there some good website that discusses these? If someone
>   can point me there, it would be great.
> 
> Regards,
> Deboo
> 

(Recently) there was a discussion about it. `mondoarchive´ and cdbackup
or similar were suggested. apt-cache search backup will give you a
bunch of options.

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