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SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to make an image). This means that you have to install some software on your image server and on your golden client in order to run SystemImager. This tutorial shows how to install a SystemImager server and a SystemImager client, both using Ubuntu 8.10, and how to create/update/restore/delete images.

Timevault est un programme pour Gnome sous Linux qui est encore en phase beta qui permet de faire des sauvegardes automatiques de ses fichiers ou de son système sous forme de Snapshot comme la Time Machine sous Mac ou le machin de restauration de Windows.

Je vous présente brièvement Synkron que je viens de découvrir, c’est un outil qui est tès simple d’utilisation et utile surtout si vous utilisez un ordinateur de bureau, un laptop et une clé USB ! Ce petit utilitaire va tout simplement vous permettre de synchroniser très facilement des dossiers et des fichiers entre plusieurs disques durs. De plus cerise sur le gâteau si je puis dire, il vous permet également de programmer vos synchrosisations …

Retrouvez cet article dans : Linux Pratique 32 Dans cet article, nous allons vous apprendre comment mettre en place un serveur de sauvegardes incrémentales pour les données d'un petit réseau hétérogène.

I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email. We’ll break this into four steps.

RESTORE was developed by Holonyx Ruffdogs and is a free, open source, enterprise network backup and recovery solution for Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix and Linux systems. RESTORE is scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers, and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet. Holonyx Ruffdogs is placing RESTORE into the open-source community.

Time Machine, une des fonctionnalités phares de Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, qui permet de créer automatiquement des sauvegardes de son disque dur afin de permettre la récupération de données peu importe le moment où elles ont été présentes sur votre disque, a maintenant un équivalent pour les systèmes d'exploitation GNU/Linux. En effet, TimeVault, un utilitaire de sauvegarde open-source permet de faire la même chose. Vous pourrez prendre des images de votre disque dur à différents intervalles pour ensuite restaurer des données que vous aurez effacés.

This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch. For this tutorial I chose Ubuntu v7.04 as a backup-client. The resulting system provides a flexible backup-system with many features. It will be able to back up multiple hosts via network to various devices. I chose the disk based backup for this howto.

n this tutorial I will show how you can set up a Postfix mailserver as a backup mail exchanger for a domain so that it accepts mails for this domain in case the primary mail exchanger is down or unreachable, and passes the mails on to the primary MX once that one is up again.

Si comme moi vous avez sous la main un serveur abritant plusieurs (dizaines, voir centaines de) bases de données, le jour où une des bases de données plante et qu'on vous demande de la restaurer, je vous souhaite bien du courage si vous n'avez qu'un résultat de mysqldump --all-databases sous la main. Afin de pallier ce problème, j'ai écris ce script bash qui vous facilitera bien la vie !

This tutorial shows how you can create backups of LVM partitions with an LVM feature called LVM snapshots. An LVM snapshot is an exact copy of an LVM partition that has all the data from the LVM volume from the time the snapshot was created. The big advantage of LVM snapshots is that you don't have to worry about open files and database connections, and you don't have to interrupt/halt services on the live partition because a snapshot is usually created in fractions of a second, so your users won't notice any disruption, and your snapshot holds consistent data.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

ZRM for MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of ZRM for MySQL - the leading MySQL backup solution. It has been developed by Zmanda engineers with input from many Database and System Administrators who were looking for an easy-to-use yet enterprise-strength backup and recovery solution for MySQL. We expect to provide frequent updates to ZRM for MySQL, so please check back often.

Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync

This tutorial describes how to do automated server backups with the tool rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup lets you make backups over a network using SSH so that the data transfer is encrypted. The use of SSH makes rdiff-backup very secure because noone can read the data that is being transferred. rdiff-backup makes incremental backups, thus saving bandwidth.