Backups; the dumbest question in the world

From: Panties on me gaelic haed! (BeenAround_at_ButVeryQuiet.org)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:30:59 -0500

Ok, I've got an automated backup question that is likely very easy...

I have a number of FreeBSD and OpenBSD boxes running in production.
Backing the stuff up that I need to backup (RRDtool stats, web server
content, etc) is easy; I use a simple script that does a 'tar zcvf
xxx.tar.gz' thing and appends the backup date to the gzipped tar file.
However, these machines have no connected tape/ZIP drives for additional
backup.

The data I'm backing up is VERY important; it CANNNOT be lost. However, I
work in a mostly Sun Solaris workplace with a very large NIS+/LDAP auth
environment. This is a problem...

My regular home dir that I use on my Linux workstation lives on a Solaris 9
box that gets backed up to tape regularly. This works well as Linux
supports a PAM/LDAP auth scheme.

However, the auth situation is such that I can't do an NFS mount of the BSD
boxen and have them read by the right users for backup purposes. Since
OpenBSD doesn't support PAM at all, and my 4.x FreeBSD boxes don't use
nsswitch, I've been forced into having to remember to 'manually' copy my
backups weekly to one of the Sun boxes that get tape-backedup.

Does anyone have any kind of solution to this?

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