I thinking to setup a server to perform backup for multiple servers. Has anyone got any experience of doing this? How should we setup the server? What sort of server specs would you recommand and what kind of software would perform it automatically?

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I thinking to setup a server to perform backup for multiple servers. Has anyone got any experience of doing this? How should we setup the server? What sort of server specs would you recommand and what kind of software would perform it automatically?

What kind of servers do you need to backup? Linux only?

I have setup such systems several times in the past using a combination of a Perl script that automates rsync over ssh. You also need to be aware of databases, etc. that cannot be copied as a file directly.