Re: Backup solutions
From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 11/17/05
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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:00:57 -0600 To: mike@lanline.com
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?
I use rsnapshot to back up several Tb's of data to a single large
'snapshot' server, which holds about 80 'full' backups of my data,
online. I then roll certain snaps to tape (using either tar or bacula),
and send the tapes off. The solution works well, is fast, and keeps the
data transfer down.
Eric
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