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 x git (backup machine only)
13 How to prepare your computer:
14 x mount your huge partition (we use /backup).
15 x make it possible for ssh to log in from this computer
16 to your other computers as root without a password. scary.
17 x put this software in a directory (we use /home/backup/)
18 x put the name of your computers in /home/backup/conf/computers.unix
19 x put the global config file in /home/backup/conf/backup.config,
21 x the fifth field (of the partitions you want to back up) in
22 /etc/fstab on your clients should be >0
25 We use cron to start the script every night. Here is the entry we use:
26 02 4 * * * /home/backup/backup-cron.sh