[NBLUG/talk] Linux desktop backup solutions

Sean seanvanco at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 09:21:14 PDT 2006


While I have personally not tried it myself, Symantec claims that it's
more recent versions will work with Linux. You should be able to make
a boot disk that will allow you to copy the entire contents of the
physical drive to another drive.

While this may be the easiest method, the options listed above are
more elegant, and if you have the time/knowhow they would be the best
solutions.

Sean


On 7/15/06, Eric Eisenhart <eric at nblug.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:20:00AM -0700, Scott Doty wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sean Machin wrote:
> > > Can anyone recommend a similar solution for Linux?
> >
> > FC5 has "amanda", not sure how effective it is...
> >
> >  -Scott
> > p.s. "Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver"
>
> Amanda's great if all you want to back up is *nix type devices that tar or
> dump work well on and you've got a tape drive (or, better: a tape changer).
>
> With windows it can just do a backup of an exported share which doesn't get
> everything you need and I suspect that with MacOSX it'll miss some of the
> weird FS data stuff.
>
> Not really made for home usage though.  Not unless you've got a tape drive.
> It can do backups to hard drive and people have made it do stuff to CD, but
> it's really not *good* at those kinds of things; for instance, the default
> hard drive backup stuff is designed to assume that the stuff on the hard
> drive eventually gets moved to tape, mostly makes sure that if somebody
> forgets to swap a tape you still get incremental backups of your systems.
> The stuff for treating a CD as if it's a tape device might've improved since
> I last looked at it, though.
> --
> Eric Eisenhart
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