Backup software

Charles Yao yaocharlesc at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 06:59:49 UTC 2005


Thaks scott

On 8/29/05, Scott J. Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
> Charles Yao wrote:
> > Any backup software you guys can recommend? im getting tiredof manualy
> > copying files on our server to back it up.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> Depends on what your looking for.  I would recommend both rdiff-backup
> and duplicity.  Both were written by the same person and both do a good
> job.  The difference is that duplicity does encrypted backups.  So if
> you don't trust the server(aka many people on it and you don't have
> root) that your sending your data to, then you might look at duplicity.
>  Otherwise rdiff-backup does a good job with far less CPU usage.
> 
> In anycase, both are packaged for ubuntu in universe and are written in
> python.  Ive had good experiences with both.
> 
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