[afnog] Good backup software

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:18:02AM +0100, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> > I'd like to see backup software which records _all_ the information
> > necessary to rebuild or clone a machine itself, so there's nothing you can
> > forget. Once the machine has died, it's too late :-(
> 
> 	That would be dd or dump, as you put it.

Not necessarily. Anything that goes on the rescue CD could be stored on the
central backup server. At very least that would allow you to burn an
up-to-date recovery CD at the point in time that you need it.

> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/Stow/	

Cute. I did wonder whether Steve Dore was a person until I looked it up :-)

Now just to integrate this with a backup scheduler, and a HSM so that the
most recent version of all files remains on on-line media...

Cheers,

Brian.