Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:20:08 -0500 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System Message-ID: <497F96A8.6080201@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200901272230.n0RMUsk7035006@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200901272230.n0RMUsk7035006@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin McCormick wrote: > Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a > number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It > worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands > working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new > FreeBSD6.3 system. > > If I can't figure out what is wrong or whether it is > worth fixing, I am going to have to find some other archiver so > we can get good backups and trust them to be easily restored. > > What we plan to do is backup a bunch of Unix systems to > one FreeBSD box and then use a commercial package to back that > box up to an enterprise-wide system we use. The archiver we need > must be able to make 1 full backup of each system like tar and > then incrementals until we are ready for another full backup. > > Any suggestions as to what is best? Dar seemed to be > okay until the incrementals would hang each time with some error > messages about the format version being too high which is bogus > because we are using the same version for all the effected > systems. > > The archive files should use tar or some other common > storage method so we could unpack an archive from a Linux system > in to a FreeBSD directory or vice versa. > > Any backup packages using tar would be fine as long as > they can do incremental backups and use ssh as the transport. > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group Hi Martin, It doesn't use tar, but I've had great luck with rsnapshot (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rsnapshot/ - http://www.rsnapshot.org/) for backing up multiple RedHat Linux and FreeBSD servers to a central server over SSH. rsnapshot is very flexible and you can set up your desired retention policies - hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. The destination backup tree is kept as small as possible with the use of hard links. Best of luck, Greg Larkin - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJf5ao0sRouByUApARAlhYAKCE6S4TKAo0NrQBfqpjgv4lbEt5nwCfadBf no05yvVwX5PId3H5MMjkKCg= =TTsE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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