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Automated Backup software for CentOS 6?

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Hi guys. The SFTP server at this site is using CentOS 6 and I've been asked to find a automated backup solution for it. Ideally, the manager is requested a full system image first, followed by daily or weekly incremental backups on the data only.

Are there any easy to use GUI based backup/recovery software that's compatible with CentOS? I've looked into a couple gui based ones but alot of them did not appear to support CentOS. Would appreciate any input to this linux noob (me of course).

Forgot to add that we'll be hooking up a external Western Digital 3TB drive to it. Is it suggested (if possible) to format it to ext4 file system first from NTFS or FAT32 before I even attempt to plug it into the CentOS machine or will I still be able to mount it manually even if it comes as NTFS/FAT32 from the factory?
 
Is it a physical server or VM? For a VM, I would likely just use VEEAM, a physical server you might have issues because CentOS is kind of muddy because its not a real enterprise type server, but most things that support RHEL will work with CentOS, just might not be "supported"
 
You're not going to find much with a GUI because well, Linux. This is pretty trivial to do with rsync and a few crontab entries once you install the necessary SSH keys (from the two systems in question). You can even pipe the output to a mail deamon and have it send you a report every time a backup is run. If that's way over your head, there should be a plethora of guides out there explaining this in more detail.

As for your drive question, you can just plug the drive in and read from it if it's FAT32/NTFS. Mounting and reformatting it to ext4 will be possible as well.
 
Vashypooh said:
Is it a physical server or VM? For a VM, I would likely just use VEEAM, a physical server you might have issues because CentOS is kind of muddy because its not a real enterprise type server, but most things that support RHEL will work with CentOS, just might not be "supported"
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It's a physical server. Alternatively, I can install the backup destination drive internally as well since I have a spare 3TB.
 
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