Re: Backup/Restore software?

[Mirco Piccin <pictux@gmail.com>]

Hi

> May I put in a vote for BackupPC?

+1 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.

don't forget you can also backup using FTP protocol (that means, eg,
web site backup)!

M