I think the last piece to be installed and running on my new desktop server/workstation is backup software. I've used dirvish for at least 9 years (the date on /usr/sbin/dirvish is Nov 9, 2010) and it's worked just fine while I've never needed a bare metal restoration. It runs every day at 00:30 via a cron job.
A web search finds many "best backup software for linux" pages and the lists I've scanned all mention rsync and bacula while the tend to differ in the rest of their choices (no dirvish I noticed). I'm considering changing from dirvish to something else since this is a new desktop and empty external 2T Hitachi hard drive. I've no objections to command line tools; I use many every day. Whatever will be used must run in the background from root's crontab. Many of you are professional system and network admins and are much more current and knowledgeable than I in the world of backup hardware so I ask you to share your expertise and opinions with me. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
