Rnapshot or Rdiff-Backup or BackupPC or Bacula?
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM, vatbier
<rsnaphshot-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote:
I've chosen rsnapshot for my home computer.
But at
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/ I can see which backup software gets the most posts:
Bacula (59804)> BackupPC> Amanda> Rdiff-Backup> Rnapshot (5649)
Does this tell something about their popularity? Quality?
The big ones are probably more enterprise oriented.
What's the best software for making backups from one simple Linux home computer to an external hard drive?
I also found something new like luckybackup:can this rival with the above programs?
rsnapshot is very simple, very straightforward, and thus unlikely to
break or be too complex to manage. In these days of modern, cheap disk
and good bandwidth, it's very effective and needs little patching or
cross-platform integration.
There are things it does *not* have. Recovery of files from the backup
system is left as an exercise for the admin, privilege management is
interesting, and it doesn't include tape backup or compression, merely
shared links between identical files. Also, it doesn't pass SELinux or
other metadata invisible to the older, POSIX file permissions written
into rsync.
But lordie, it's fast and easy and robust to set up. And by the time
you've invested all the time in other backup systems to get them to
work the way you actually want, you could have a month's backups up
and running with rsnapshot.
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