Backup

How?

List of backup software.

BackupPC

See BackupPC.

Bup

See Bup.

Burp

See Burp.

BorgBackup

See borg on GitHub.

Other

• Amanda
• Attic
• Bacula
• Backupninja
• brackup
• Duplicity
• rdiff-backup (review)
• rsync (Optimal remote backups with rsync over Samba)
• UrBackup
• ZBackup

Backup reviews:

• 5 Awesome Open Source Backup Software For Linux and Unix-like Systems

Review Bacula, Amanda, Backupninja, Backuppc, and UrBackup. Also cite Rsnapshot, rdiff-backup, Burp, Duplicity, SafeKeep, DREBS.

What?

A backup checklist.

On Linux

• /home directory
• /etc directory
• /usr/local directory
• /root directory

In addition:

• Get a copy of crontab (although they are in /var. For each user:

crontab -l

• Copy all mysql database (although they are in /var and /etc.

sudo su -
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > mysql-$hostname.dump