Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:48:14 -0500 From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: "'Jeff at NorrisTechs'" <jeff@norristechs.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Backup solutions Message-ID: <20051116234820.58D8543D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <437BC2D7.6070503@norristechs.net>
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> > 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? No bacula, but this is what I use from time to time to take live copies of a filesystem: # tar -cvzf - / | ssh steve@server.domain.com 'cat > fsbak.tar.gz' Note that you will have to implement SSH keyed authentication to automate it all-around. Also note that the above will create a tarball on the remote server that contains the ENTIRE directory structure. Substitute '/' for '/usr' or whatever structure you want backed up. This procedure can also be used to untar the tarball onto a new disk, and boot right from it. (Although changes have to be made, and it's not bulletproof). A Perl or shell script can easily automate the naming of the backup file on the remote system, and even recycle ones that are N days old. Regards, Steve > > > >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" > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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