Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:28:47 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com>, Gabriel Ramsey Trimbach <gtrimbach@naviant.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup options Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008311632580.50784-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000831143222.6327C-100000@utah>
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I had to back up several servers a while back and it was it similar to your situation. I had 2 Solaris boxes, a FreeBSD box and 2 NT boxes. I got a new workstation and put Linux on it so I could manage the new Sony autoloader tape drive. I chose Linux because it was not clear that the new tape drive would work with FreeBSD and I also want to use NFS and Sharity-Light to mount the Unix and NT systems. So I set it up to mount the remote systems and dumped each one to the tape drive everyday. It worked great. I did consider programs like amanda and others but those had a certain amount of cost and were not easy to set up. It was very easy to set up NFS and Sharity Light and run unix utilities like tar and dump are too easy. If you were to put a tape drive on any system I would strongly suggest you put it on a unix system as it can safely record NT filesystems to tape over Sharity Light or some other Samba tool while NT does not record all of the permissions data in Unix. And ideally you would have a Unix system with a very large amount of storage acting as a fileserver for the other Unix systems and the NT systems. If you have any Mac users you can also set up Netatalk on the same machine. Then you can backup the majority of your critical data in one place. The more simple the better. There are many ways to do it. Have fun planning and designing your backup routine. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gabriel Ramsey Trimbach wrote: > > > > > Hey, > > > I know this is a bad way to start off but I am an NT administrator who is > > > looking for a way to back up a FreeBSD box on my network. I have no > > > experience working with FreeBSD and I'm having some trouble locating any > > > support concerning the backing up of files off of a FreeBSD machine. Any > > > suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help with this. > > > > If you think Samba could be viable solution, you can always email me > > privately (in order to reduce the traffic on this busy list) > > Gabriel's way is easier if you already have backup on the NT box. > > Another way is to install a backup device in the FreeBSD box and use its > native utilities dump and restore. > > Another way is a more global backup solution. You could install a backup > host using amanda and backup your entire network using the backup host. > (The backup host could be your current FreeBSD box or another unix-like > box.) > > "Unix Backup & Recovery" is a good book if you need ideas. I recommend > purchasing it. > > Thank you, > Jason C. Wells > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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