Re: Backup solutions

From: Jeff at NorrisTechs (jeff_at_norristechs.net)
Date: 11/17/05

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    Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:37:59 -0700
To: mike@lanline.com

    I use a method you describe. tar gz all my files and directories then
    push them to a removable hard drive (jaz, zip, etc). I use a simple
    shell script to do all this for me and I rotate the media each day, so I
    have at least 3 copies of everything. This process would take much hard
    drive space to accomplish as you have the original file, then the tar.gz
    version of the same files.

    Cheers

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    mike@lanline.com wrote:

    >Hi all,
    >
    > I'm looking into several backup options for my site. We have a
    >mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment. We recently got a 2TB server and
    >I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups. I was either
    >considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data
    >to the remote file system or possibly using bacula. Amanda is out,
    >because I'm not really interested in pushing the stuff to tape.
    > So, I'm pretty much down to bacula and the standard unix tools.
    >Bacula looks cool, but it seems like it maybe unnecessarily complicated
    >and bulky (btw, i also do have a few w2k servers that can be backed using
    >bacula's client :( ). Anyone with a similar situation or experience with
    >bacula?
    >
    >Thanks in advance.
    >
    >-Mike
    >
    >
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