Recommendation for backup tool?

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Bill Barich · Post by **Bill Barich** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:34 am

I've been using Praetorian Guard before to back up our Win7 PCs at work. The backups worked very well but only on Windows. Now we switched to Gentoo and I need some recommendations for backup tools compatible to Gentoo.
I hope someone can help me.

avx · Post by **avx** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:21 am

Depends on what you need to backup, how and how often to do it.

In portage alone

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> eix -cA app-backup                                                                                                                                                                           
[N] app-backup/amanda ((~)3.3.0): The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
[N] app-backup/backintime ((~)1.0.8-r1): A simple backup system inspired by TimeVault and FlyBack, with a GUI for GNOME and KDE4
[N] app-backup/backup-manager ((~)0.7.10.1-r1): Backup Manager is a command line backup tool for GNU/Linux.
[N] app-backup/backupninja ((~)0.9.10): lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
[N] app-backup/backuppc (3.2.1-r2): A high-performance system for backing up computers to a server's disk.
[N] app-backup/bacula ((~)5.2.6): Featureful client/server network backup suite
[N] app-backup/boxbackup (0.11.1): A completely automatic on-line backup system
[N] app-backup/ccollect (0.8): (pseudo) incremental backup with different exclude lists using hardlinks and rsync
[N] app-backup/cdbackup (--): Allows streaming backup utilities to dump/restore from CD-R(W)s or DVD(+/-RW)s
[N] app-backup/cdbkup ((~)1.0-r1): performs full/incremental backups of local/remote filesystems onto CD-R(W)s
[N] app-backup/cpdup ((~)1.17): A comprehensive filesystem mirroring program
[N] app-backup/dar ((~)2.4.2): A full featured backup tool, aimed for disks (floppy,CDR(W),DVDR(W),zip,jazz etc.)
[N] app-backup/deja-dup ((~)22.0): Simple backup tool using duplicity back-end
[N] app-backup/dirvish (1.2.1): Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system.
[N] app-backup/duplicity ((~)0.6.18-r1): duplicity is a secure backup system using gnupg to encrypt data
[N] app-backup/flexbackup (1.2.1-r11): Flexible backup script using perl
[N] app-backup/fsarchiver ((~)0.6.13): Flexible filesystem archiver for backup and deployment tool
[N] app-backup/furball (--): A handy backup script utilizing tar
[N] app-backup/hdup ((~)2.0.14): Hdup is backup program using tar, find, gzip/bzip2, mcrypt and ssh.
[N] app-backup/kbackup (0.7.1(4)): KBackup is a program that lets you back up any directories or files.
[N] app-backup/luckybackup ((~)0.4.7): Powerful and flexible backup (and syncing) tool, using RSync and Qt4
[N] app-backup/mirdir (2.1-r1): Mirdir allows to synchronize two directory trees in a fast way
[N] app-backup/mylvmbackup ((~)0.13): mylvmbackup is a tool for quickly creating backups of MySQL server's data files using LVM snapshots
[N] app-backup/pdumpfs (1.3-r1): a daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs
[N] app-backup/pybackpack ((~)0.5.8): GTK+ GUI for the rdiff-backup tool
[N] app-backup/rdiff-backup (1.3.3): Remote incremental file backup utility; uses librsync's rdiff utility to create concise, versioned backups.
[N] app-backup/reoback ((~)1.0_p3-r1): Reoback Backup Solution
[N] app-backup/rsnapshot ((~)1.3.1-r1): A filesystem backup utility based on rsync
[N] app-backup/sarab ((~)1.0.0): SaraB is a powerful and automated backup scheduling system based on DAR.
[N] app-backup/simplebackup ((~)1.8.1): Cross-platform backup program
[N] app-backup/snapback2 ((~)0.917): Snapback2 does backup of systems via ssh and rsync. It creates roll ing snapshots'' based on hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly rotations.
[N] app-backup/spideroak-bin ((~)4.3.9928): An easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, storage, access and sharing system.
[N] app-backup/tarsnap ((~)1.0.32): Online backups for the truly paranoid
[N] app-backup/tob ((~)0.26-r2): A general driver for making and maintaining backups.
[N] app-backup/tsm ((~)6.2.2.0-r1): Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup/Archive (B/A) Client and API
[N] app-backup/vzdump ((~)1.2): A utility to make consistent snapshots of running OpenVZ containers.

Add to that a lot of custom solutions and commercial stuff, not in portage.

bobspencer123 · Post by **bobspencer123** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:28 pm

I have always used blinkeye's stage 4 script with great sucess.

http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4

If you wants something a little more full features and with a gui you could check out clonezilla.

Fitzcarraldo · Post by **Fitzcarraldo** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:02 pm

If it's enterprise-wide backup then I would have thought something like Bacula or Arkeia would be the way to go.

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Bill Barich · Post by **Bill Barich** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:26 am

Thanks for your suggestions! I will definitely look at these tools and see which one to try.

tauflux · Post by **tauflux** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:24 pm

+1 for Bacula.

I use it on a little ARM based Linkstation NAS running Debian. The "Director" (using sqlite for db) and "Storage Demon" run on the NAS, and the "File Demon" runs as a demon on the Gentoo box.
Each night it backs up either an incremental, differential or full. I've enabled compression which yields about 70%, but not used the encryption. And it has a nice GUI or console interface that can be run on the client.

Hypnos · Post by **Hypnos** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:31 pm

See my sig for a decent personal backup solution.