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The appropriate backup commands are usually put in one of the cron directories in order to have them executed on a regular basis. In larger environments, the freely available Amanda backup suite or a commercial solution may be implemented to back up multiple machines. Working with tapes, however, is a system administration task beyond the scope of this document.


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9.2.5. Tools from your distribution


Most Linux distributions offer their own tools for making your life easy. A short overview:


• SuSE: YaST now includes expanded backup and restore modules.

• RedHat: the File Roller tool provides visual management of (compressed) archives. They seem to be in favour of the X-CD-Roast tool for moving backups to an external device.

• Mandrake: X-CD-Roast.


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