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        <title><![CDATA[backups]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have an HP 1Tb appliance that provides a USB interface, so I like cp -r /home/me (or whatever) &quot;/media/HP Desktop Drive/me&quot;Flexable, intuitive, simple - as usual YMMV]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rjwinslow]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:40:04 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[rdiff-backup may do what you want]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3743390]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[rdiff-backup uses a diff process to store just the changed parts of files. I used it for a while and found performance to be an issue when using on the whole system (mostly due to i/o on our slow disk). But for a smaller set of files it could be a good fit.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dmmst19@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:29:30 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How To Do Incremental Backups of an Individual File?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3671394]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[anyone know of a method to do incremental backups on an individual file? such that PARTS of the file are backed up, instead of the entire file.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[johnywhy@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:58:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Flawless and easy restoration]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are correct dutchglory, restoring your system with &quot;free&quot; tools can be a real pain.  I have used BackupEDGE for many years.  The thing I like best is the ability to boot from a recovery CD and automatically restore the system to the most recent backup.  It's not free, but at $500 for a new license, it pays for itself the first time your have to restore a system.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jhwilder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:52:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Backup linux: Backup? Perfectly!!... Restore is a differerent story...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Most backup tools for Linux work great for making a backup. But the most problems start when you want to restore the backup.  developers tend to forget this part of their backup tool with result, many mistakes and recovering completely fails. There should be MUCH more testing and listening to users on forums or bugreportsystems. Only then you get a perfect working backup tool... DutchGlory]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dutchglory]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:20:18 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[BackupPC!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been using BackupPC for years on both windows and *nix servers.  It is way simple to use and is a snap to setup.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[citricguy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:16:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Flexbackup.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have several clients in small offices that use Linux servers setup as simple Samba Domain controllers.  I use Flexbackup http://www.edwinh.org/flexbackup/It's easy to setup, just edit and ini file and it runs tar or dump and others so you don't have to have a copy of flexbackup to access the data.  Runs off a cron job.  Add a cron job to delete old backup and maintain more then one ext HDD set and your good to go.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[nathan@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 06:35:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3393239]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I tried bacula, might as well spend the next 10 years trying to configure it. Backup teddy is WAY easier.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lixprotip1]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:20:57 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3387478]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I found RSYNC to be a little more annoying to use (I'm not good at LINUX). Also, there was a problem writing the script because Godaddy wants something just below the shebang:TERM=linuxexport TERMI think the problem was linked possibly to me using Godaddy as a hosting provider. I know they suck at times.There is a tutorial @ http://www.fortasse.com/2010/01/tutorials/tutorial-automatic-backup-script/ which describes a Godaddy working script. So far, it hasn't caused me issues. It doesn't use RSYNC, but I will try to adapt it to do so.Nothing like having your whole years worth of site in super compressed GZIP files. It's not as space costly as some would think (my whole year is perhaps 1 GB).Anyway, is there any way to make a script that is compliant all the time?For example, will the commands I pasted above work on every server? I have some sites not on Godaddy.Martha D.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MarthaD67]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:33:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[mkCDrec has worked for me in the past]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've used mkCDrec for bare-metal, disaster recovery type of restores.  It's FOSS and, once you get the dependencies worked out, pretty simple.  It's command-line, so it's easy to setup in a bash script and throw in your crontab.  Basically, it just makes a an ISO, or a series of ISOs, depending on the size of your server and if you use DVDs or not.  You burn those to disk and just boot off the first one, run one shell script and follow the instructions.  It was amazingly easy, really.I wrote a brief review of it on my blog back in the day, here:http://www.ryumaou.com/hoffman/netgeek/2004/10/mkcdrec-linux-restores/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ryumaou@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:55:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think I looked at that one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That sounds familiar as I went through backup options a while back looking for something. In my case, I need centralized backup preferably with a small client on each machine, cross platform support and, ideally, bare metal restores.For general home use against a USB drive though, I did find a number of great options which should have included Simply Backup if it didn't.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:30:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Simple Backup and Restore]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3284621]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's in the Ununtu repositories.  I've used Simple Backup.  It adds another program called Simple Backup Restore.   Suits my needs for a desktop with a USB disk drive.  Use it for both my laptop and desktop.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rMatey]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:35:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What about Storix?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You mention Arkeia, but no Storix? Arkeia sucks when it comes to Bare-metal because it does not support LVM. There is also Microlite, but they are a little buggy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[youareno6]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:12:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3240706]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Really that's the great information.I will definitely try all these.http://www.magicbackup.com/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Botham]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:13:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kleo Bare Metal Backup]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3239555]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Great article. I think the list of apps reviewed still stand up as the some of the best Linux backup utilities. I'd like to suggest one more -- Kleo Bare Metal Backup for Servers http://www.kleobackup.net.Kleo is graphical wrapper around the excellent open source program partimage. Partimage has always been one of the best open source image backup programs around, but it suffers from a complicated user interface.For example, if you wanted to store your partimage backup on the network, you'd first need to manually find the target, and manage mounting the remote share.Kleo is a wizard interface that makes the job of running partimage simple without trading away any of the power.  Kleo will scan the network and list possible targets. You pick your destination, and Kleo handles the job of connecting to the network share and invoking partimage with exactly the right set of command line options.We bundled Kleo with the Carroll-Net Server Rescue Kit. A LiveCD jam packed with with 100s of specialized server recovery tools. All the best tools we like to have at hand when attempting server recovery -- Gparted, NTpasswd, Dd_rescue, install-mgr, grub, and many more.Both Kleo &amp; the Carroll-Net Server Recovery kit are free for any use, personal or business. The Server Recovery Kit is released as GPLv2 and Kleo is released as Freeware.You download a copy of Kleo or read more information online at http://www.kleobackup.netJim C.http://www.carroll.net]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kleosubmit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:47:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Appliances]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3219935]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[In terms of backup, I like the Unitrends appliances (http://www.unitrends.com) - in particular, the hot BareMetal.  I also like the fact that these things are running Linux (CentOS.)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[drsw]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:05:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3195913]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[A backup is no better than it's restore. I've been looking at D?j? Dup. It's nice feature is its integration into Nautilus. It has a Restore to Previous Version option when you right-click that lets you restore a folder or record from its backup.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[artmartz]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:36:43 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[BackupPC]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3142867]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Did you use it for backing up servers in production envirement?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[usterk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:36:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[J - RESTORE?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3128833]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Have you tried RESTORE? You seem pretty OS Savvy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dbl@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:04:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RESTORE image]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-313785-3128832]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Anyone here tried RESTORE, a Linux distro that does not much else bu enterprise backups?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dbl@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:03:29 -0700</pubDate>
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