Alexander Kushnirenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After quite a few disks died on me I start to realize that backup
> may be worth the effort :)
I needed an accidential mkfs of the wrong partition before I decided
to buy a streamer. Fortunately, all important data were recoverable
(but it took a whole day).
> There are several backup programs in Debian, so could someone
> recommend one for our case:
>
> 4 computers serving like X-terminals with no users (yellow pages +
> /home area is mounted from another computer), we would like to
> backup only /etc, /root and some other configuration files. We
> would like to transfer those files to another big computer on a
> special disk which is backed up daily.
I suggest using afbackup, you can run the backup server on one machine
and the backup clients on all machine where are data to store. No
need to transfer the data to the server before running the backup.
The packages are afbackup (server part) and afbackup-client, current
debian verison is 3.1beta1 (current upstream version 3.1) in section
utils.
An alternative is amanda.
Torsten
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