From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 23:38:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C98416A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:38:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff@norristechs.net) Received: from scooby.norristechs.net (scooby.norristechs.net [71.36.89.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A71243D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeff@norristechs.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] [71.36.89.205] by scooby.norristechs.net with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.21) id A2E501B0; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:38:13 -0700 Message-ID: <437BC2D7.6070503@norristechs.net> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:37:59 -0700 From: Jeff at NorrisTechs Organization: NorrisTechs.NET.COM User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@lanline.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solutions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:38:15 -0000 I use a method you describe. tar gz all my files and directories then push them to a removable hard drive (jaz, zip, etc). I use a simple shell script to do all this for me and I rotate the media each day, so I have at least 3 copies of everything. This process would take much hard drive space to accomplish as you have the original file, then the tar.gz version of the same files. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */Jeff Norris/* /~ Web Hosting ~ VPN Solutions ~ Network Management ~ Design, deploy, kick ass. / *N*orris*Techs* dot net http://www.norristechs.net *AOL IM or Yahoo IM: _ ntshelper _* mike@lanline.com wrote: >Hi all, > > I'm looking into several backup options for my site. We have a >mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment. We recently got a 2TB server and >I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups. I was either >considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data >to the remote file system or possibly using bacula. Amanda is out, >because I'm not really interested in pushing the stuff to tape. > So, I'm pretty much down to bacula and the standard unix tools. >Bacula looks cool, but it seems like it maybe unnecessarily complicated >and bulky (btw, i also do have a few w2k servers that can be backed using >bacula's client :( ). Anyone with a similar situation or experience with >bacula? > >Thanks in advance. > >-Mike > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > >