Those people who don't take backups have never needed to restore anything

I have, for a long time, been disapointed with the quality of open source backup/restore programs available in the *NIX world. I use Veritas Netbackup most of the time, however the cost of this solutions licences and associated hardware is prohibitive for small office/home users.

The quickbackup program grew from a number of small scripts I wrote to take snapshot backups of essential file systems. I use it in a number of client sites to provide an easy, quick and zero cost backup solution.

It has a simple config files, writes out compressed (bzip2) CPIO archives and manages it's own archive retention etc. There is also a 'quickrestore' command for those times you need to extract files from the backups.

The program is available from here or for those of us who use Debian, you can use

deb http://bandcamp.tv/ stable main

in your sources.list.

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