Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-29 Thread Lonnie Olson
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.com wrote: Our company has grown to the size that we'd like to have offsite backup of all the computers in the office, and all the servers in our rack.  We currently maintain backups locally, but want to know if there are

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-26 Thread Charles Curley
Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic plug@plug.org Subject: Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution? On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:32:38PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote: Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-25 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:32:38PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote: Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise area. :) I've read that amanda can be set up to store a copy of the backups on an AmazonS3 share. Does anyone here have any experience

Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
Our company has grown to the size that we'd like to have offsite backup of all the computers in the office, and all the servers in our rack. We currently maintain backups locally, but want to know if there are cost-effective and efficient solutions for offsite backup for extra redundancy

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
I say two routes: 1) For desktops, other backups, use mozy.com 2) For servers, setup a 2nd colo mirroring the first, so if one goes down, the other takes over. -Will On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.comwrote: Our company has grown to the size that we'd

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Apr 24, 2009, at 10:52 AM, William Attwood wrote: I say two routes: 1) For desktops, other backups, use mozy.com 2) For servers, setup a 2nd colo mirroring the first, so if one goes down, the other takes over. -Will Hmm. Mozy looks kinda pricey, but may be the best solution for the

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
Check with Center 7 in Orem - they have a new facility in place. You could always do weekly snapshots of the systems and push those off-site; that way if anything fails, you don't have a total loss. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.comwrote: On Apr 24,

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise area. :) One other thing: We currently use backuppc for all our office computers, which stores things in such a way that pushing the backup archive off site is nearly impossible (lots of hard links, etc). I've read that amanda can be set up to

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Thad Van Ry
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.com wrote: I suppose I could set up a colo to mirror, but that would be very expensive in this market - we checked into colo pricing before we built out our server room, and over the course of a year it was cheaper to build

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:32:38PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote: Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise area. :) I've read that amanda can be set up to store a copy of the backups on an AmazonS3 share. Does anyone here have any experience doing so? I have no idea whether Amanda can do