[sllug-members]: Backup solutions

[Gary Thornock]

--- Donald Livingston <donlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> My company is in the process of setting up an Asterisk VoIP
> PBX system for our office phones, and we are in need of a
> backup solution for the Asterisk box.  We would like to be
> able to create an image of the hard drive for quick recovery.
> We looked into Symantec Ghost, but it appears to install only
> to Windows partitions.  I am looking for a similar software
> solution that will run on RHES 4. If we can't find a reasonable
> solution by the end of this week we will look at alternatives
> (backup scripts to external drives, DVD burner, etc.).

If you're looking specifically for imaging software, try g4u
[1].  For more general backup, bacula [2] comes fairly well
recommended, although for a single server, you might be OK with
plain old tar.

[1] http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
[2] http://www.bacula.org/