From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 16 20:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B5E37B4C5 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1061) id 6CE842B2BB; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:50:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:50:15 -0500 From: David Drum To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User friendly and reliable backup solution Message-ID: <20001016225015.A36640@elvis.mu.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Drum , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001016131524.A25516@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from tduffey@wi.rr.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 03:07:13PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Tom Duffey: > However, disaster recovery is the most important thing I need to deal > with right now. Furthermore, I need the ability to do complete backups > on removable media so a fairly recent copy of the systems can be taken > off site from time to time. OK, there are two different needs above. The first one is some kind of incremental nightly backup. For that I would suggest using amanda. Keep the number of levels low, though, close to 5, so that you do not have to trudge through a large number of tapes in order to reconstruct a filesystem. The second need is more archival in nature. For that I would just suggest running dump manually on an as-needed basis, and sticking the tapes in a safe-deposit box at the bank, or such. Where they go is up to you. If you are super paranoid, a bank won't do. Both environmental and accessibility issues would rule it out. > Again, what I'm looking for is reliability and an easy restore process so > that if a drive blows up and I'm unable to make the two hour drive to > repair the damage, someone who is by no means ignorant, but just hasn't > had much experience with FreeBSD can fix the hardware and restore the > system completely. Amanda is pretty easy to use via step-by-step instructions. Regards, David Drum david@mu.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message