Re: Good backup software for Linux
On 6/20/05, David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:
> On Monday 20 June 2005 11:21, Siju George wrote:
> > On 6/20/05, Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:36 +0300, kalasala wrote:
> > > > http://www.amanda.org/
> > >
> > > Well, Amanda is really for backing up multiple servers to a single
> > > archiving device isn't it? As the original poster didn't state what he
> > > wanted backed up I presume it's a desktop machine.
> >
> > Thanks simon for asking :-)
> >
> > I have a Sarge installed that I would want to run as a backup server.
> > this server will take backups from other Linux/BSD/Solaris/MS Windows
> > systems. The backup will be stored on hard disk (mirrored) for now but
> > later it will be taken to DVDs.
> >
> > kind regards
> >
> > Siju
> The description above of Amanda is nearly right, if you change the
> word servers on the first line to systems. It works perfectly well with
> desktops, less well with laptops but still can be used.
>
> There are clients for Amanda which will work on all the systems you
> name, and the server (last time I looked) had to run on Linux so you are
> in good shape.
>
Thanks a lot David, Simon, Dave, Lee and Kalasala.
what do you suggest Amanda or Bacula?
thankyou all so much :-)
Kind regards
Siju
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