Remote Backup Solution for Linux

[wy125]

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?

[CyberSurfer]

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

[Hack]

Moved

[wy125]

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.

[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?

[wossname]

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.

[wy125]

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?

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.