From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPRq2-0003WH-UW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:06:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 718321C050 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webabinitio.net (173-13-127-166-NewEngland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.13.127.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254BA1C019 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 03:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mailhost.webabinitio.net [127.0.0.1]) by webabinitio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C337250040 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 23:53:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at webabinitio.net Received: from webabinitio.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.webabinitio.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id w7HwDMAncrFz for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 23:53:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from maestro.bitdance.com (maestro.home.bitdance.com [192.168.0.4]) by webabinitio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4354250024 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 23:53:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "R. David Murray" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best backup service? In-reply-to: <4DDD6008.8080903@gmail.com> References: <4DDD6008.8080903@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 23:53:36 -0400 Message-Id: <20110526035337.5C337250040@webabinitio.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 31d30ad13c385c6efb054046b52b06c4 On Wed, 25 May 2011 23:01:12 +0300, Kristjan Kalder wrote: > 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? I started out with bacula, but as someone else said the disk backup support is cumbersome. I've since switched to rsync-backup and I love it. Combined with one of the web interfaces it basically gives you time machine for your linux boxes.... -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com