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[12 Oct 2008 | Comments | ]
BackupPC – a Free enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server’s disk. It is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain. The program is written in Perl and extracts backup data via SMB using Samba, tar over ssh/rsh/nfs, or rsync. It is robust, reliable, well documented and freely available as Open Source on SourceForge.
Key Features

Optional compression support further reducing disk storage. Since only new files (not already pooled) need to be compressed, there is only a …