2 x a computer running a free UNIX clone.
3 x as much disk space as you can afford.
5 You need software on clients and server:
11 How to prepare your computer:
12 x mount your huge partition (we use /backup).
13 x make it possible for ssh to log in from this computer
14 to your other computers as root without a password. scary.
15 x put this software in a directory (we use /home/backup/)
16 x put the name of your computers in /home/backup/conf/computers.unix
17 x the fifth field (of the partitions you want to back up) in
18 /etc/fstab on your clients should be >0
21 We use cron to start the script every night. Here is the entry we use:
22 2 2 * * * /home/backup/backup.sh < /dev/null >> `/home/backup/logfilename.sh` 2>&1