FlexBackup – A Flexible Backup Tool

FlexBackup is for you if you have a single or small number of machines, amanda is “too much”, and tarring things up by hand isn’t nearly enough…

Stable version: 1.2.1 (Oct 10 2003)

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This program can use the “buffer” utility to speed up tape and network I/O: (recommended, not required). The RPMs are compiled with changes to allow large file (>2GB) support.

People sometimes have trouble finding afio… (recommended for tapes; not required – you can use just about any archive program)

Source: afio-2.4.7.tgz
Source RPM: afio-2.4.7-134.src.rpm (taken from SuSe, but rebuildable w/ just about any rpm)
Redhat 8/9 RPM: afio-2.4.7-134.i386.rpm

Newer versions can alternately use the “mbuffer” utility instead of “buffer”. I would recommend staying with “buffer” unless you want to experiment.

Source: available from its site
Source RPM: mbuffer-20011008-1.src.rpm
Redhat 8/9 RPM: mbuffer-20011008-1.i386.rpm

Older versions:

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