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Any decent Linux web based backup management programs?

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Currently my backup solution consists of several bash scripts which use rsync to mirror various directories. These backups are more or less to protect in the event of accidental file deletation etc... There's not much retention as it's just a nightly update.

I have another system of scripts for removable backups, using individual hard drives. Any old drive I have no use for, or even spare drives, I throw in that pool and rotate them around. I put the hard drive in a dock, each drive has the same drive label, so the backup script mounts by label to a given directory, runs a specific job file based on a file that is on the drive. It works ok, but it's kind of dirty as I can't run more than one at a time given it mounts by label. Now that I built a big file server and also added multiple external sata ports I'm thinking I should get a couple more drive docks so I can run more backups at a time. I know it's possible to mount by UUID as well so that would be my best option.

I started thinking, I want something more sophisticated and web based, so I can easily manage the backups, know which drive I should put in next, etc. I can probably code this myself but I'm wondering if there is anything out there already that is free/open source? Basically I'm looking for something kinda like Backupexec.
 
The Amanda project was pretty good, but I don't know of a web interface for it. I set it up years ago to emulate a tape library on the local file system. It basically created a few directories that were "TAPES"... Then the agent runs and tosses files at the server, tars them up to a specific size and spreads them out across your directories. This allows you to configure remote mounts and have the backup server save files to them. You could do the same thing with bash and tar scripts, but don't get the ease of configuring it in one place and having a client/server app take care of security.

http://www.amanda.org/

You can get support from Zmanda, but I don't know if that's really worth it.
 
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