Automatic Backup software

[dave]

Markus Kolb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> can anyone recommend an opensource backup software which can do
> automatic, unattended backups.
> I need different backup level support or best would be something with
> versioning like Tivoli Storage Manager does.
> Of course it needs not to be so great and powerful as TSM.
> It would be nice if the solution could manage the backup space with
> ftp.
> And it should be no huge application.
> At the moment I use selfmade scripts in cronjobs with time stamping but
> the restore of single files is not very comfortable.
> Before I add some versioning and restore help to my backup scripts I want
> to have a look at the "world".
> A first look at freshmeat and sf.net told me that there is many backup
> software out there but it is difficult to find the right one.
> So maybe you can recommend.
> 
> Markus
> 

I like Backuppc. I looked at bacula and amanda, but settled on backuppc. 
It was much simpler to setup, and backs up to hard disk, which is what I 
wanted. There's a web interface to browse the backups, check on their 
status, etc. You can restore to original host or download tar/zip 
archives to restore to another machine (or manually to original host).

I use rsync over ssh to do backups, which was a piece of cake to setup. 
Check out the docs at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/.

It is available in hoary main, I'm not sure about warty.

Dave