This is a somewhat loose question but we're still in the brainstorming stage....
We're currently outsourcing all our backups to central IT, who uses Legato. This is expensive. We'd like to cut our backup costs while continuing to take advantage of the Legato team's infrastructure for full/archival/DR backups. Seems like the currently popular open source backup options are Amanda and Bacula. Rsync also becomes a contender if we're doing disk-to-disk. Am I correct in thinking that amanda uses /etc/amandates, bacula uses /etc/dumpdates, Legato uses its own database, and rsync checks the files on disk against the existing archive, so none of these systems would run interference with each other? Am I missing any obvious good choices? Anyone here doing mixed method backups? The wildcard is that I don't control the Legato server and need to choose from a set of fixed schedule choices, none of which are really working for us. I may want to go fight for a customized schedule but I'll want to be dang sure it's going to meet our needs. (and there's a whole nother layer of fu around Legato not understanding native ZFS and needing every single ZFS volume to be legacy mounted, but that's another post) -- Unix Systems Administrator Harvard Graduate School of Design _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
