On 12/30/2004 8:13 AM Danny wrote:
On 30 Dec 2004 09:52:30 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And there's actually a *third* possible goal, which is quick recovery
of accidentally deleted (or overwritten, etc.) user data. UFS2
filesystem snapshots are a remarkably easy way to provide this.
This would be nice, but I am not going to get that granular at this
point. Thank you for the reminder, though.
And then there's RAID, which doesn't solve any of these problems, but
can help you get back up fast after losing a disk.
Hardware RAID, yes, for hardware failure. Got that covered.
Each of these goals has a different "best solution," and in some cases
the solution even depends on the details of the environment. Figure
out exactly what you need before deciding how to fill that need.
From a backup point of view, my goal...
On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and
modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress
and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a remote FreeBSD server
through some form of efficient and secure file transfer. Uncompressed
the nightly data may total ~20MB.
From a restore point of view, my goal...
To be able to download the compressed backup(s) from the remote server
and restore the previous days data.
Hopefully this explains my situation.
Thank you,
...D
Have you looked at the Bacula port? The compression can be handled by
Bacula. If you set up tunnels, that should handle the encryption part.
Once you get used to the way Bacula works, it's fairly easy to use. You
have a central machine that is the "director" and initiates and
coordinates all of the backup jobs. You also have a "storage daemon"
(which can be on the same machine as the "director" or another machine
altogether) which stores all of the files. You can also have multiple
storage daemons if you wish. And finally, you run a "file daemon" on
every client you wish to backup. There are clients available for many
different OSes. I use it to backup two FBSD boxes and 2 WinXP boxes to
file volumes.
Take a look and you might find it will meet most of your needs.
Drew
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