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AMANDA rocks. The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver is one great thing about Maryland, at least they have that (ok, sorry, bad Maryland joke, the bay and the seafood is good too, the Orioles are OK, but the Ravens suck!)

Anyway, AMANDA is the Univ of MD distributed backup system. It is a 'highly useful, stable network backup utility with a wide range of features.' AMANDA is very good also, its not just hype. I have recently started working with it because of issues I have with the new owners of BRU (and because after all, BRU aint free!)

AMANDA likes a centralized server to act as the main backup station and then it can remotely backup other machines. AMANDA uses tar and dump for backup compression, can backup multiple machines pseudo simultaneously and has a ton of configuration possibilities to suit just about every need (it can even back up windows machines, if you happen to have some of those.)

Its free, its GNU, checkit and check the linked SysAdminMag tutorial.   Configuring AMANDA: SysAdminMag