Книга: Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 edition

Alternative Backup Software

Alternative Backup Software

The free download version of Fedora does not provide any other sophisticated backup applications, but Red Enterprise Linux has a variety of third-party software available. Commercial and other freeware backup products do exist; BRU and Veritas are good examples of effective commercial backup products. Here are some useful free software backup tools that are not installed with Fedora:

? flexbackup — This backup tool is a large file of Perl scripts that makes dump and restore easier to use. You can access flexbackup's command syntax by using the command with the -help argument. You also can use afio, cpio, and tar to create and restore archives locally, or over a network by using rsh or ssh if security is a concern. Its home page is http://www.flexbackup.org/.

? afio — This tool creates cpio-formatted archives, but handles input data corruption better than cpio (which does not handle data input corruption very well at all).

It supports multivolume archives during interactive operation and can make compressed archives. If you feel the need to use cpio, you might want to check out afio athttp://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/.

? cdbackup — Designed for the home or small office user, cdbackup works with any backup and restores software that can read from stdin, write to stdout, and can handle linear devices such as tape drives. It makes it easier to use CD-Rs as the storage medium. Similar applications are available elsewhere as well; the home page for this application is at http://www.muempf.de/index.html.

Many other alternative backup tools exist, but covering all of them is beyond the scope of this book. Two good places to look for free backup software are Freshmeat (http://www.freshmeat.net/) and Google (http://www.google.com/linux).

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