[aklug] Re: easy backup software

* John Heim <john@johnheim.com> [2014-07-11 15:30 -0500]:
>Any recommendations for backup software? I would like it to make a
>tar.gz daily of a list of files and directories. If it can exclude
>files and folders in another list, that would be good. And it has to
>automatically rotate the backups. Finally, if it can take credentials
>for a remote rsync or sftp server, that would be good and copy the
>files there, that would be good.

I've been using rsnapshot [1] successfully for around three years. I
have it pull data from linux/windows/*BSD systems, it auto rotates
backups, uses hardlinks to minimize space used, allows exclusion of
file patterns and/or directory trees, and it can take credentials for a
remote server (I use a special private ssh key for rsync access to my
VPS).

[1]: http://www.rsnapshot.org/

Try it out: I think you'll like it!

Regards,

-- 
dave [ please don't CC me ]

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