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 +====== Backup ======
 +
 +===== Preface =====
 +
 +This page is **not** grml-specific. It's just a place for collecting documentation regarding backups. So, what do we want to have? A backup system with the following features:
 +
 +==== Must have features ====
 +
 +  * automatism (no manual interaction needed)
 +  * easy to handle (no obscure and 'use trick 17b to get foo' software lacking documentation)
 +  * simple restore (fast and easy to use)
 +  * filesystem independent (do not depend on XFS, ext3,... specifics)
 +  * efficient diskusage (do not require 100% of original data for each backup)
 +
 +==== Nice to have features ====
 +
 +  * versioning system (now let's get file foo of backup of 24th of december)
 +  * support for LVM  (lvm-snapshot)
 +  * network support OOTB (move backup via sftp/ssh/... to another server)
 +  * supports encryption OOTB (so we do not have to write our own gpg-wrapper around it)
 +  * Debian package already available in >=Etch (get security support and have it on other boxes as well)
 +
 +===== Present Debian Packages =====
 +
 +  * afbackup - Client-Server Backup System (Server side)
 +  * afio - archive file manipulation program
 +  * amanda-server - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server)
 +  * backup2l - low-maintenance backup/restore tool for mountable media
 +  * backup-manager - command-line backup tool
 +  * backupninja - lightweight, extensible meta-backup system
 +  * backuppc - high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs
 +  * bacula - Network backup, recovery and verification (Meta-package)
 +  * chiark-backup - backup system for small systems and networks
 +  * dar - Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files
 +  * dcfldd - enhanced dd with md5 checksums
 +  * dd - convert and copy a file
 +  * dirvish - Filesystem based backup system using rsync
 +  * duplicity - encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
 +  * faubackup - Backup System using a Filesystem for Storage
 +  * flexbackup - Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized installations
 +  * ftpbackup - backup to/restore from ftp server
 +  * hdup - Filesystem duplicator and backup
 +  * ibackup - Automated backups (even remote) of machine configurations
 +  * mirrordir - duplicate a directory by making a minimal set of changes
 +  * mrb - Manage incremental data snapshots with make/rsync
 +  * multicd - Backup your data to CD-R/CD-RW
 +  * openafs-fileserver - AFS distributed filesystem file server
 +  * partimage-server - server to use partimage across a network
 +  * pdumpfs - a daily backup system similar to Plan9's dumpfs
 +  * rdiff - Binary diff tool for signature-based differences
 +  * rdiff-backup - remote incremental backup
 +  * rsnapshot - local and remote filesystem snapshot utility
 +  * rsync - fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
 +  * simba - next generation mirroring tool
 +  * storebackup - fancy compressing managing checksumming hard-linking cp -rua
 +  * tar - GNU tar
 +  * tob - Small yet powerful program for tape oriented backups
 +  * unison - A file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows
 +  * zsplit - zsplit - will read big devices or files and make compressed splitted image chunks of it
 +
 +===== No Debian Packages available yet =====
 +
 +  * [[http://reoback.sourceforge.net/|reoback]]: simple to set up, and easy to use backup system
 +
 +===== Comparison of Tools =====
 +
 +^ Tool ^ efficient Storage/Diskusage ^ Bandwidth ^ Encryption ^ Compression ^ Bitkeep-Secure ^ add. Notes ^
 +|  duplicity | + | + | symmetric and asymetric  | + | unknown | - |
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