From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 23:48:21 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 0518E16A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:48:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D8543D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:48:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 47525 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Nov 2005 23:48:19 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(209.167.16.15):. Processed in 2.959717 secs); 16 Nov 2005 23:48:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fuze) (209.167.16.15) by pearl.ibctech.ca with SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 23:48:15 -0000 From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "'Jeff at NorrisTechs'" Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:48:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Thread-Index: AcXrBt9iPScfYV2yRgS5rQqHD7SxdgAAI98g In-Reply-To: <437BC2D7.6070503@norristechs.net> X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <113218489667547519@pearl.ibctech.ca> Message-Id: <20051116234820.58D8543D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> 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 23:48:21 -0000 > > 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" >