How to preform backups of files, directories, and drives

system backups

Some solutions

 * ibackup for /etc files
 * rdiff-backup supports network but works in local mode also for incremental backups but you have an identical copy of the last backup that you can restore using only cp
 * foc simple customizable
 * hdup2
 * backup2l no good docs online?

Backup on CD

 * multicd maybe the best solution if you want your files to be not compressed, but just put on CDs so that you can just mount the CD and broe it.
 * CD Utils Other solution, i think it created a compressed file (to check), but this can be good for long names...

Backup on tape drive

 * taper
 * burt

Network Backup

 * Bacula it has good documentation
 * BackupPC written in Perl, HTML interface
 * Amanda quite old and big

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