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.) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;