[linux-sec-uk] Linux Backup Solutions: Amanda, Bacula etc.

[James Davis]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:

> For a somewhat different approach, rdiff-backup maintains an efficient
> rsync-style copy of a directory tree, but also keeps incremental
> changes (so I can restore a directory as it was last night, or as it
> was three days ago, which is extremely handy for configuration files,
> for instance).

Since it's only the one file I'm currently looking into backing up I'm not
sure that this will be too useful for me, but thanks for mentioning it.
I'm sure it will come in useful in the future.

Re: Tivoli, I've used Oxford University's setup in the past and found it
to be very nice. Unfortunaty I'm on a slightly lower budget than them, and
I think it may just be overkill for this single machine at the moment ;)

James