pablasso's questions

I don't have a problem with Zmanda but i wonder if there is any better or popular solutions out there other than doing it by hand.

My requirements are:

• Online backups
• The tool should decide to use mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy depending on the database
• Verify integrity of backups
• Send status emails
• Clean old backups (optional)
• Be able to choose between incremental or full backups (optional)

Replication seems to be the "best way to do backups" but I'm not gonna do that on this project.

I'm known as a hater of RPM/Yum based OS, just because i think their lacking of decent package repositories (at least for recent software).

While in Debian/Ubuntu, there are a lot of good repositories with recent packages. I'm not "bleeding edge" admin (for that i could use Gentoo) i just don't like being forced to install things from source or trust any random RPM found on the web.

I know any decent sysadmin should be able to maintain is own repositories, but since I'm mainly a programmer i like to leave this work to a 3rd party.

What are your choices to maintain software/repositories on CentOS/Fedora?