Suggestions for backup utility

[Apostata]

Hey folks,

I want to set up a HD -> HD backup system at work here, and I thought I'd take advantage of our Linux server to do this.

Can anyone suggest a good freeware backup utility that not only compresses but, like dump, backup only what is changed since the last usage?

Appreciated muchly.

[Whipping Boy]

man tar
man bzip2
man cp

[bdg1983]

There are many freeware and commercial products available for Linux. BRU is just one of them.

I did a quick search at freshmeat.net for backup and here they are (http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeat&q=backup&section=projects).

Should be something there that can help.

I did purchase a Linux magazine a couple of months back that featured backup software. It's sitting at the office though and I'm sitting at home. If you don't find what you want, post back and I'll have a look at that article again and let you know.

[Apostata]

Looking back at my question, I must admit humbly to being very vague...almost trollish (it's not that trollish....I mean, it's backup software after all).

My apologies for seeming a little lazy to look up things for myself.

It's not that I'm not familiar (in the 'man' sense) with tar, cp, etc...it's just that there are so MANY; each with it's own idiosyncracies. I should have posted my question with this stated...the fact that I was a little overwhelmed by the choices.

One I have just downloaded at work, called Akeia looks interesting. However, I just discovered something that caused me to slap my head in self-loathing: I didn't realise that tar supported supplemental backups to existing archives - this was really the whole impetus for my search in the first place.

In the end, as I finish this ultimately rhetorically circular argument that I started: I'm an idiot.

I promise to think before I post open-ended, poorly thought questions next time.

(btw: thanks for the offer anyway, mdwattsIII)

[Whipping Boy]

Originally posted by Apostata:
<STRONG>I didn't realise that tar supported supplemental backups to existing archives</STRONG>

Yeah--just use the --update option, and it'll just check all the files you specify and only update the ones that have modification dates later than the date of the tar archive.

Tar and cpio are really the best archiving utilities you'd need, anyway. AFAIK, all these other utilities are just fancy-dancy frontends to either tar or (less likely) cpio.