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By: Respaldo y archivado de las fotografías en linux. : Fotografías

Respaldo y archivado de las fotografías en linux. : Fotografías — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:16:35 +0000

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By: Security News - Tools - Tutorials and more … » Blog Archive » Warning: Hardy Heron May Cause Linux Addiction

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:44:38 +0000

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By: don

don — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:01:25 +0000

I was surprised to see that “Bacula is relatively easy to use” and agree with slacka – read the manual. But it is worth the effort.

By: Whispers in the airstreams » Blog Archive » Understanding backup types

Whispers in the airstreams » Blog Archive » Understanding backup types — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:08:37 +0000

[...] your system. Data backup with periodic snapshots is well handled by rsync with a shell script. Foogazi describes 5 possible options for backup, [...]

By: slacka

slacka — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:05:07 +0000

I’m just checking out bacula at the moment for a smallish network of servers. It is quite complex and i’m about halfway through the manual (750p). I suggest you read it before you jump into it. On the plus side it seems like it is easily the best way to keep a distributed backup system. I am using it to create a system that has no single point of failure and I dont think that this could easily be accomplished with most of the simpler options.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:40:38 +0000

Nice article, I prefer rsync. For everybody who is new to Ubuntu I also recommend Grync, which is a GNOME GUI programm for rsync. So, if you do not like the command line, give it a try