On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Brock Noland wrote: > I spent four months implemting Bacula in a production environment on > Windows/Mac/Linux servers. It has a ton of features but it is a MAJOR PAIN. > Eventually I just setup a machine with a huge disk. Then I use SSH and > something like the following: > > tar -cf /dir_to_backup | ssh backupuser at backuphost -C "cd /backup_storage/ && cat > backup_of_host.tar" Check out BackupPC: http://backuppc.sf.net It uses rsync-over-ssh to backup the files, and does nifty things like hardlinking identical files to save space. IE, on my personal BackupPC server: Sizes before pooling (linking) and compression: 30 full backups, 114.87gb 112 incr backups, 118.09gb Total actual disk space used: 42.63gb. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500