On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but......
Hi Dan: Like Guy Van Sanden wrote, it depends entirely on your needs. If this box can't ever go down you'll need raid. On our network here we use a 10 slot tape robot with 30G capacity per slot. On my home network I get by with a single DLT for the daily backups and a CD burner for the non-critical but not easily replaceable stuff (MP3s, pictures, etc.). > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > There's a timely article on ARSTechnica about raid at (http://www.arstechnica.com). If your machines are mainly static (and it seems so since one's a firewall and the other just relays) and you don't mind some downtime, you can probably get away with keeping backups of the configurationsi, installation CD and any necessary updates. My firewall, running on a Mandrake 7.2 system, takes up about 350M for the entire system, so I just dd it across the network to another system. > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
