Backups allowing individual file restoration

[Paul Howarth]

Gerry Doris wrote:
> I'm looking for an application that will create an image of a full 
> Fedora drive that can be used for either a bare metal restore or can be 
> used to restore individual directories or files.  I use Partition Image 
> for this for my Window boxes.
> 
> I've tried using Partimage.  It's a great program but it only creates 
> images of complete partitions and can only restore the complete 
> partition...no directory or file access.  It looks like G4U and G4L 
> actually use Partimage so I assume they work the same.
> 
> I don't want to use either CD's or DVD's.  I would like to 
> backup/restore either to another hard drive on the system being backed 
> up or across my network to a server.
> 
> Any reommendations would be appreciated.

bacula can backup to disks on the same or other servers. Moreover, it 
keeps a database of the backed-up files, allowing retrieval of 
individual files by date if required. Bare metal restores are also possible.

Highly recommended.

http://www.bacula.org/

Paul.