What are you trying to backup? Do you care what Distro is on the backup server?
BackupPC is pretty beaf. There is a nice webgui for configuration etc. Regardless, if you are looking for realtime backups, you are gonna have to understand the config files or configuration settings to do things correctly. Here is a pretty descriptive howto: http://howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc Chris... On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:33 PM, John Richmond IV <[email protected]> wrote: > Correct Randall. > > The promise of bacula is great and it does deliver, but I do not have > the time and staff to baby sit it and give it the attention it's > demanding. > - > John Richmond IV > ----------------- > Randr, Inc. > 951-369-3427 > 951-787-8683 Fax > www.randrinc.com > > > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:16 -0800, Randall Whitman wrote: >> > [John] >> > I'm coming to the LUG today to ask everyone's opinion on a good network >> > backup and restore program. >> > Now before anyone writes back and says Bacula, I've been there done >> > that. I've just found it too hard to install and run. Especially, >> > between different distro of Linux. >> > So any others out there that might be, at least a little, easier than >> > Bacula? I'm basically looking to backup a few folders on each of our >> > servers on a daily basis. >> >> You are looking for something more turnkey than writing a script >> around rsync? >> /Randall >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
