Linux backup software

Linux backup software
Rick Cook

Backing up Linux? There's freeware and commercial software that you can use to make the job easier. This tip gives some starting info. If you have a backup tip, why not send it in? We'll enter you in our tips contest and you might win a nifty prize.

While Linux systems can be backed up with scripts and the built-in utilities there are also many commercial and open-source backup programs available. Generally they offer more speed, better user interfaces and features such as virus protection. In addition many of them are designed to handle elaborate multi-server systems.

Some of the products come from well-known software companies such as Legato Systems (www.legato.com), and NovaStor (www.novastor.com), which offer backup utilities for many operating systems. Others are from Linux specialists, and a number of these, such as AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automated Disk Archiver) (www.amanda.org), are freeware themselves. To find the best match for your enterprise's needs it is important to look at a broad spectrum of backup solutions.

For most organizations, the feature set and how it matches with the enterprise's goals will be more important than low cost. Although all these products back up Linux systems many of them emphasize different things in their design. Some, such as Arkeia (www.arkeia.com) are designed to back up multiple machines across a network. Some emphasize

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Rick Cook has been writing about mass storage since the days when the term meant an 80K floppy disk. The computers he learned on used ferrite cores and magnetic drums. For the last twenty years he has been a freelance writer specializing in storage and other computer issues.

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