On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 2:01 pm, Stewart Evans wrote: > After sorting through a pile of datasheets, and noticing > the last big discussion on backup software was back in > July. > > Is there a GUI/Web based software that you would recommend > to a customer who needs single file recovery access to their backups > and is more familiar with something like retrospect ( for example ) > > They have seen Backup edge for one and have not sadly found it easy to use > for this purpose. > > The system must have onboard tape drive, therefore network backups are > not being considered ( 5-10GB per day of data )
We have been using TapeWare for almost 2 years on an SME Server, and have found it to be quite good. The Windows clients talks quite happily to the Linux server. See http://www.tapeware.com. That being said, I have almost finished putting together an 'incremental snapshot rsync backup' which backs up to another PC running SME. A base level PC with a 80Gig drive is probably less than a tape drive. Or you can even use that old P200 sitting in the corner. We will also be using this to do automated offsite backups over the net. With a bit of trickery with rsync, hardlinks and samba, you can have 'snapshot' backups that (except for the first copy) only take up the harddrive space of the differences. eg, the first backup might be 10Gig. Each days backup after that is only 100MB, but it looks like you have a complete copy of the all files for each day. The files are shared via samba, so users just go to //backup/files/snapshots/2002-11-17-13.15/ibays/files/some.file.doc and restore their file. They don't even have to talk to the sysadmin. :-) The idea came from Mike Rubel's 'Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync'. Unfortunately Mike's site seems to be down. (Normally http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/.) See the Google cache - http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:o1j8_RqeSIcC:www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/+%27rotating+backups%27+mike+rubel&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 You can also look at rsback. (http://www.pollux.franken.de/hjb/rsback/) I could probably post my rsync backup script if there is interest, as it is designed with SME in mind. I'd need to clear that with work though. The script is also a little 'rough and ready' at the moment. Rasjid. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
