From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 03:01:11 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 A312716A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDDE43D45 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:01:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.25] ([192.168.42.25]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAH316DH009358; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:01:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <437BF269.5080809@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:00:57 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@lanline.com References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1176/Tue Nov 15 14:47:39 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:01:11 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------