Re: Which backup package?
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. bacula. regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 04:24, George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ *Every* time I see that app's name, I think, But I don't have a PowerPC... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDbkyS9HxQb37XmcRAkctAJ9i0XO0p0W7b2kMRO8RpGTSV7H9EwCgrNIc ENcZcQ75mEChwpeKpS3wpFc= =LoS8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
On 21-Apr-08, at 7:17 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? If they are all linux boxes, and you aren't hung up on backing up to tape, I like rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ It uses just perl, rsync and hard links. Works well for small setups because the backups aren't munged or filed or tar'd up - restore is just a matter of moving files back. Backing up to disk makes for easy access, and you can back that up to an external drive or over the internet for offsite copies. That in combination with mondorescue (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) for bare metal recovery has served me well. (lots of lightly used linux desktops in various locations) Doesn't work with Windows or Mac very well though... Brian PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Which backup package?
On 22-apr-2008, at 1:17, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I'm in a similar situation and I'm very happy with my initial results using rdiff-backup. It's simple and efficient if you'll be making backups to disk. It can do push as well as pull backups and do ssh if needed. I'm setting it up to do daily incremental backups and will do complete backups form the 'current' rdiffbackup directory to tape. It might even work with rsync.net, haven't had the time to test that yet though. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which backup package?
Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? As usual, many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) Do you intend to backup to tape? Unless amanda has improved a lot in the last few years, I'd recommend bacula. I switched from amanda to bacula and have been much happier. My complaint with amanda was that it didn't support our tape library at all (a 22 tape library) and we had to configure the library so it used a new tape every day. bacula does support tape libraries well and uses the tapes much more efficiently. It stores the backed up files in a database and so during a restore will be able to find the correct tape(s) in a multi-tape backup set to load to get the files you request. The cool thing about this is that it doesn't associate a tape with a particular backup job, and so is able to fill up the tape as backups are done over time. I don't know the status of development on amanda any more, but bacula is being actively maintained. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/08 19:28, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) Do you intend to backup to tape? Unless amanda has improved a lot in the last few years, I'd recommend bacula. I switched from amanda to bacula and have been much happier. My complaint with amanda was that it didn't support our tape library at all (a 22 tape library) and we had to configure the library so it used a new tape every day. bacula does support tape libraries well and uses the tapes much more efficiently. It stores the backed up files in a database and so during a restore will be able to find the correct tape(s) in a multi-tape backup set to load to get the files you request. The cool thing about this is that it doesn't associate a tape with a particular backup job, and so is able to fill up the tape as backups are done over time. I don't know the status of So multiple, consecutive days of backups are on one tape? IMNSHO, that's a serious design flaw, because a bad tape would then wipe out many days of backups, like putting many eggs in a fragile basket. development on amanda any more, but bacula is being actively maintained. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDTlDS9HxQb37XmcRAgFqAJ9W87Js9h3RhsWNnJ+4O7HR5uLE7gCfVwnN m8pyB1JL7kyzL0p/WdvxVGc= =qmui -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is time that I started getting serious about backing s/time/long passed time/ up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) You've offered too few details to go on. Do they all need to be backed up? How much, how often, how critical are they, what are they, and what else do you have? If you've a Tandberg or DLT drive available, that'll work nicely depending on your situation. Or would a CD/DVD burner do? Or just rsync each of them to another one so you've a mirror of each if one dies? There's lots of strategies for doing backups. What happens if your backup server dies in the middle of a backup (or restore)? Who backs up the backup server? You don't need to backup anything that's on the install disks. What else have you got? Corporate website with backend database? I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've never needed GUI backup programs. I've never understood why people use them. The point of backing up is making a system easily and correctly recoverable. Making the backup easy is missing the point, IMO. It's the restore that I want to be quick and easy. Roll your own? Mine's hand crafted out of bash, find, afio, and bzip2, however it's not suitable for enterprisey stuff (though it could be). It's done a brilliant job of making archives that are easy to work with, recovering my systems over and over again (I experiment a lot :-). -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? http://www.mondorescue.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
