[NBLUG/talk] Linux desktop backup solutions

[Kyle Rankin]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:06:35AM -0700, Sean Machin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
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> 
> I'd like to be able to back up my entire Linux PC to a network drive (to
> allow full "bare metal"
> 
> restore should the entire machine die), and also be able to selectively
> browse the backup
> 
> image to restore individual files if necessary.  I use Norton Ghost on
> my Windows PC
> 
> to do this and it works well. 
> 
>  
> 
> Can anyone recommend a similar solution for Linux?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
> 

I've had really good results with backuppc:

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

It can backup Linux, Sun, even windows and comes with a nice web gui that
you can configure to have users be able to restore their own files.

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