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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best backup service?
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On Wednesday 25 May 2011 22:01:12 Kristjan Kalder wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I'm currently looking for a good backup service so I could do 
> centralized backups of all my Windows and Linux clients.
> I don't have any tape devices so the backups have to go on a hard drive.
> What would you suggest?
> 
> 

bacula, if you want a high-end solution, but keep in mind, that support for backups on disks is implemented via a helper script "vchanger", to emulate tape drives, which makes the whole configuration a little cumbersome and restoring backups is not straightforward, if your database (yes, every file gets recorded separately) is lost (which happend to me). Now I use a much simpler solution: sarab 
I don't know anything about amanda...