Re: backup software recommendations?

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Author: Matrix Mole
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: backup software recommendations?
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Alex Dean <> wrote:
> I need backup software for a home network. Mix of Linux and OSX machines.
> Will be using an external HDD for backup media. The backup server will run
> on one of the OSX machines, since it's the only non-laptop I have. I'm
> mainly looking for something that's easy to configure and has minimal
> resource consumption.


I like the rsync option for backup purposes. I'm not sure if it'll
work for your setup. I've been using it to keep my web servers safe
and stored on my local network from their remote machine locations.
Plus, with rsync being command line, it should be very easy to write
shell scripts for it.
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