What's your preferred tool for backups?

--jeremy

My corporation bought "Arkeia" and I find that it is VERY easy and expandable. I like it better than anything listed here.

Ohhhh You forgot g4l, Ghost for Linux.
I will not vote until it is added.

G4L has been added.

--jeremy

Thanks !
Voted for G4L. Easy, fast, reliable, useful features added regularly.
Successful where some others failed miserably. I enjoy this tool.

Well, this is tough. rsync, rsnapshot, tar and cp commands put into a shell script for customized backups. I dont know what to vote for. rsync? rsnapshot? tar? cpio? Ummmm....okay, its rsync.

I always have a little difficulty with this particular category. I use several of these regularly, depending on the situation. I have scripts that do a find and pipe it to cpio. I have scripts that tar up a directory and scp it to another server. I have scripts that rsync directories between servers. I use ufsdump for root disk server recovery. And I use Amanda for backup of data on all my servers across the network in several different departments.

I think the category should be broken into at least two. One would be basic tools like cpio, tar, dump, or rsync. Those are things you use from the command line or incorporate into some kind of script or higher level application. The other category would be applications that either build from those or from scratch to achieve a more integrated backup functionality -- intended to run regularly, tracking schedule and previous results, using a configuration file, maintaining sequences of full and incremental backups, handling multiple partitions, drives, machines, etc. I would also be inclined to separate out disk imaging applications from backup applications.

I have found AMANDA to be extremely reliable and flexible. The community support is great as well!

hey guys whatsup with the FSarchiver tool?

i used it to backup my ntfs.can you add it please?

FSArchiver has been added.

--jeremy

thanks a lot Jeremy .

rsync was just a fancy cp tool, cpio is the time tested winner

dar is my winner, use it for years now (at home).
Please somebody make a good gtk frontend for it.

luckybackup - a front end to rsync.

http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/

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