On 26 Feb 2007 at 15:31, dman [ at ] lanhouse [ dot ] ca wrote: > I think someone a while back discussed rsync-snapshot so I'm going to look > it up but I thought I would ask what people use for back-ups. I use, advocate, and contribute to Bacula <http://www.bacula.org/> > Ideally I'd like something that offers the following: > > - schedules back-ups (otherwise I'll forget) while the system is running > normally Check... > - each back-up creates an exact copy of the drive as a mountable image > file I think you can backup the device, but I wouldn't do that myself. > - a configurable number of back-ups are kept and then the oldest is > overwritten > - command line interface (the servers I run don't have X) > - a recovery live CD for disaster recovery where an image can be > restored to a new drive and then that new drive can be booted. Bacula has all those. > Is there a tool out there offering these features that someone on the list > has used (restored with). I'll start poking around but I thought I would > get someone's personal recommendation before I start trying things. You got mine. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/