I suggest bacula too. I use it in more than one farm and It saved my
skin in differents way.
Il giorno 06/giu/06, alle ore 23:03, Kirk Hoganson ha scritto:
Not really a Gentoo specific problem, but one related to my Gentoo
servers none the less. Hopefully someone here can provide some
insight that I lack, in finding a good overall solution to our
backup needs.
We have about 50 Gentoo servers filling different roles, and we
have been outgrowing our current backup solution (bash scripts on
each host), for some time.
I recently got the budget for a central host with a couple TB of
storage. Now it falls to me to come up with a replacement for
these disparate scripts that fills our specific needs.
What are those needs? Well, I'm glad your curious. They are
actually pretty simple.
1. We have directories with data that change daily on many of these
hosts. These must be backed up incrementaly.
2. We need to create regular system "snapshots", or recovery CD's
to backup the systems and their configurations in the event of
failure.
3. There are systems whose data changes on a less frequent basis,
and these need only be backed up weekly.
4. We also have several MySQL databases that also must be backed up
daily in their entirity. One of these DB's is about 20G, the rest
are much smaller.
5. All of this data is compressed, encrypted, and sent to an
outside vendor for offsite storage. We don't need to archive much
of our data. Our needs are primarily data and system recovery.
We were considering AMANDA as a central solution, but it's lack of
MySQL integration made it only a partial solution, with some
addition hacking/scripting to make it viable for all of our data.
I would like to keep as much logic and control on the central
system to ease maintenance. I would also prefer to use standard
tools wherever possible, to avoid unnecessary complication.
Does anyone have any thoughts about how some of this can be
accomplished, using a software package (like AMANDA), or an in
house model putting together common system tools (perl, ssh, tar,
etc.)
I am really hoping to find something that we won't regret in a
month, because it is a ridiculous hack, or a horribly flawed
architecture.
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