how-do-i-make-backups

You can back up a directory hierarchy or complete file system to any media using GNU tar or cpio, the standard *nix tools for this purpose. tar seems to be the more commonly used program currently, and includes command line options to make compressed, incremental, and multi-volume backups. Complete information is contained in the documentation, which is in GNU Texinfo format.

The free program, Amanda, receives a lot of mentions on Usenet. Its home page is http://www.amanda.org.

There's also Bacula, which you can find at http://www.bacula.org.

- Several commercial backup utilities also exist. They are often included in commercial distributions.

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