[ale] Central server recommendations?

[Brian Pitts]

> laytonjb at charter.net, on 08/22/2007 10:55 AM said:
> 1. Backups: software and/or hardware recommendations? The data is likely to
> change fairly slowly. What about using DVD's for shorter term backup (less
> than 2 years)?

I used to use rsnapshot, but I've decided dirvish makes it easier to 
backup different machines at different times (I don't always have 
connectivity to all of them). Both of these are convenience wrappers for 
the "rsync + hard link" snapshot style of backup.

http://www.rsnapshot.org/
http://www.dirvish.org/

You could use Bacula and integrate DVD's, but this ends up fairly complex.
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/index.html

An interesting-looking piece of software I've never tried is 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

-Brian