Remote Backup Solution for Linux

Hi all. I was just wondering if anyone has experience with using a remote backup solution and had some recommendations. I'm looking for something that will run on linux and is free. Any suggestions?

Do you mean backing up to somebody elses remote service, or backing up your own remote servers locally?

Moved

I'm looking for a backup service that will run on my linux server. The client machines (both windows and linux) need to connect remotely and dump there data on the server.

This one is pretty good (it's the one I use for my work systems, but it does cost):

http://www.tolisgroup.com/products/bruserver/

and there's also this one (free), but it's horrible to configure:

http://www.amanda.org/

Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?

I'd be tempted to just use the built-in tools like rsync and cron supported by a few hand-coded bash scripts. At least it's free and completely tuned to your needs.

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Originally Posted by CyberSurfer

This one is pretty good (it's the one I use for my work systems, but it does cost):

http://www.tolisgroup.com/products/bruserver/

and there's also this one (free), but it's horrible to configure:

http://www.amanda.org/

Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?

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Yeah that's the kind of stuff. I have found several software packages at sourceforge.net but haven't got through testing them. I think, as Wossname suggests, one based upon rsync would be ideal.