On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 05:42:27PM -0700, David Guntner wrote: > I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a > program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my > system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full > backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains > and so on. > > My Linux machine (Debian 6.0.7 at the moment, but planning on updating > to Wheezy soon), on the other hand, has gone far too long without any > real backup protection. I'd like to rectify that if I can. :-) > > Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I > described above? I want to be able to set it and forget it so it just > runs every night on its own and that way I have about a week or two's > worth of backups to fall back on. I need it to be able to do a full > restore in case of a disaster as well as being able to restore selected > files/directories in case of a "oh why did I rm *that*?" moment. :-) May I put in a vote for BackupPC? The Pros as I see them are: * Web based configuration, making it easy to get started with (but you can also dig into plain-text config files easily enough, too. * Can backup a machine using rsync, rsyncd, tar-over-ssh or even SMB (for backing up Windows machines without installing any client on them) * De-duplicates files both in time (so if you make two full backups onto one disk, it only takes up the size of the first image plus any changed data) and in space (if you backup two linux machines, there will be common OS files and these are de-duplicated). Hard links are used to "fill" the backups, so each one looks like a full backup. * Restoring a file can be "pushed" back from the web interface.
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