Best practice / tools for backing up a server before production ?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:59:56AM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> are you using tape backups?  disk to disk backups?
> 
> There's several different tools you can look at.  tar, amanda, bacula.
> 
> Personally I want to move away my servers from tar because it can't do 
> incremental backups.  I plan on migrating to bacula.  www.bacula.org

GNU tar can do incremental backups. Look for the --listed-incremental
switch. We are also using BackupPC to backup our running systems. It has
nice features (my favourite: being very space efficient), but it is
disk-to-disk only.

Bye,

Tino.