backup software for linux
 

Hi i need some software to help me facilitate my backup process. Any guise should also be handy
Best Regards
Alex

there are just so many...with one of the best being dump :)
better tho if describe your backup process then the best program can be recommended for your process

start with rsync
 

rsync is a powerful backup utility. Here is a sample use, in particular, as a gui-less time machine clone:

http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorial...e_machine.html

For a full featured backup system I highly recommend BackupPC.

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

There is also a very good chance that it has already be packaged for your distribution.

Evo2.

^^^ very useful...there is also rsnapshot - snapshot based backups with reduced space usage....amanda which is very cool but a bit harder to set up....
currently i am using rsnapshot & amanda.

Hello together,

I'm using flexbackup http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/, this is a perlscript. One can define so called "sets" and configure full, differential or incremental backups for each set. I'm using the anacron daemon to start flexbackup daily when I start the computer. I've a partition for my updates on a second internal harddrive and the complete process of updating runs more or less unnoticeable in background.

Markus

Which backup media do you intend to use?

Looks like the answers have covered a range of possibilities, but none of us yet know the configuration or requirements alaios has in mind. Presuming s/he responds back with details, we can then hone down the options. I like redundancy and actually use more than one of the options already mentioned.

For a thorough background on backups, see Backup & Recovery by W. Curtis Preston. There is also a companion web site called Backup Central. Or, you can check out http://www.linuxquestions.org/bookmarks/tags/backup. That should give you enough resources to keep you busy for a while. For more focused help, come back with some details about what you want to backup and what your requirements are.