Linux Backup software

[Wildebeaste]

Anyone have any (good) experience of installing open source backup software on Linux (specifically Centos4/RHEL4)?

 

I've tried MondoRescue - uninstalling/reinstalling multiple times, but it insists that mindi-busybox is missing. It works until it need to write to a disk/file. As Mondo won't install without busybox, I'm somewhat purplexed.

 

Bacula seemed good, but again, it insists it needs something that I think is already there.

 

I'd like something really simple. Load a RPM and bingo! Backup software works!

 

I'd really like to backup my Moodle installation to tape/cd/dvd, whatever I can get to work - back to the metal if possible.

 

Any suggestions (that won't take weeks to work out how to install?) ?????

 

Ta very much.

[CyberNerd]

I use rsync to backup Centos to another server, I then use tar in a cron script to backup to tape.

 yum install rsync

should do it, but its command line based so you probably want to read the manual

[openhgs]

Assuming that you have a tape drive connected to the box, use cron to run a script eg :

 

#!/bin/bash

mt -f /dev/st0 rewind

find /home -print | cpio -ovBH crc -O /dev/st0 >/var/log/backuplog 2>&1

mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl

mt -f /dev/st0 eject

 

If you don't like cpio, then use tar as suggested.

 

If you want to backup to CD/DVD then something like

#!/bin/bash

IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -R -q -print-size /home 2>&1 | sed -e "s/.* = //"`

mkisofs -r /home | cdrecord speed=2 dev=1,1,0 tsize=${IMG_SIZE}s -data -

 

oh yes, YMMV