Image by: Creative Commons: CC-by-SA Backup options There are many options for performing backups. Most Linux distributions are provided with one or more open source programs especially designed to perform backups. There are many commercial options available as well. But none of those directly met my needs so I decided to use basic Linux tools to do the job. In a previous article, Using tar and ssh for Backups, I showed that fancy and expensive backup programs are not really necessary to design ...