On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> rsync Totally awesome, caveat, I worked with the maintainer of rsync for a while, and he is also totally awesome. Some bias here. That said, this is a transfer mechanism, not a backup tool. > rsnapshot Have used and do use currently, yet to have a problem. > rdiff-backup Use currently for TB's of file data. Seemingly bullet proof, wish it was maintained better. > tar Have used this to back up 100's of GB in the past on multiple OS'es. can be fussy. > amanda never used it. > bacula Have used to back up 100'GB of file data (some was to replace above tar usage :) Works, fussy, don't loose the catalog. > Any other tools that you'd like to mention, that you're likely to use for > backups duplicity - have not used, need to investigate for rdiff-backup replacement > Follow-up question: Given that these are all free open source packages, > which are probably included with your "stable" OS distribution, would you > have bias to assume they're reliable, just because of that? No, all software has bugs. Notably, if you're using a stable OS release (debian stable, rhel, ubutnu LTS) those packages may be old and lack features or invasive fixes you may need. In that case I'd build from source and overlay those updated packages on top of the OS base environment. Buy what you can, build what you need :) -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhr...@gmail.com> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
