{"id":475,"date":"2006-05-01T04:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/85ecfaadf680b9e0adb83f39c8370885"},"modified":"2006-05-01T04:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T11:12:16","slug":"open-source-backup-grows-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Open source backup grows up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having effective backups are a critical part of any business, but the open source community was for a long time ignored. It's only in recent years that we've had tools and extensions that allow backup of Linux software - I've been using the backup client for Retrospect from Dantz<\/a> now part of EMC for years. <\/p>\n

But what about open source backup tools for open, and proprietary, platforms. There have been many bubbling under, although I doubt I will be the only to admit having used tar, cpio or rsync for years on their Unix systems. In fact, I've been using a variation of the same backup script now for about 12 years. Others probably use ufsdump or similar for their backups - a tool that has been part of Unix for many many years, but it is hardly an effective solution for very large systems.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Having effective backups are a critical part of any business, but the open source community was for a long time ignored. It’s only in recent years that we’ve had tools and extensions that allow backup of Linux software – I’ve been using the backup client for Retrospect from Dantz<\/a> now part of EMC for years. <\/p>\n

But what about open source backup tools for open, and proprietary, platforms. There have been many bubbling under, although I doubt I will be the only to admit having used tar, cpio or rsync for years on their Unix systems. In fact, I’ve been using a variation of the same backup script now for about 12 years. Others probably use ufsdump or similar for their backups – a tool that has been part of Unix for many many years, but it is hardly an effective solution for very large systems.<\/p>\n

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