Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:00:57 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: mike@lanline.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solutions Message-ID: <437BF269.5080809@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10511161819420.440-100000@mail.lanline.com> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10511161819420.440-100000@mail.lanline.com>
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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? I use rsnapshot to back up several Tb's of data to a single large 'snapshot' server, which holds about 80 'full' backups of my data, online. I then roll certain snaps to tape (using either tar or bacula), and send the tapes off. The solution works well, is fast, and keeps the data transfer down. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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