[Tfug] backups?

[Paul Scott]

Andrew Huntwork wrote:

> i'd like to back up some files on 3 linux machines on my local 
> network.  It's really just home directories and cvs that i care 
> about.  I don't have a tape drive, just a cd writer and the hard 
> drives on the 3 machines themselves.  I started looking at amanda, but 
> it seems to be highly dependent on a tape drive.  Is there any free 
> program that will help me do this?  And what is the best backup 
> strategy with my resources?  copying files around, or burning data to 
> a bunch of cd's, or both?

tar and gzip or bzip2 + whatever you write CD's with should do it unless 
you will want to do this often enough to need incremental backups or 
something.

Paul Scott