Backups

Chuck Short chuck.short at canonical.com
Thu Apr 21 11:20:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:47:53 +0200
Nicolas Barcet <nick.barcet at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/2011 04:33 PM, Michael Terry wrote:
> > Hello!  I'm doing a bit of research for my proposal for Ubuntu
> > Desktop to install the GNOME-based Déjà Dup backup tool by
> > default.  (btw, please cc: me)
> > 
> > I get the sense that command line backup methods are thick on the
> > ground.  Is there a backup tool that the Ubuntu Server project
> > recommends?
> > 
> > Is the program duplicity [1] (upon which Déjà Dup is based) well
> > regarded in the server community?  I'm curious if there is any
> > mindshare overlap at all.
> > 
> > [1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
> 
> If I am not mistaking, Bacula is the only backup tool available in
> main at the moment, hence this could be considered the recommended
> backup tool at the moment.
> 
> Nick
> 

Actually there is a both backuppc and bacula in main. But we recommend
bacula to our users.

chuck




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