Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:40:47 -0800 From: Roman Volf <volfman@keystreams.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup solutions Message-ID: <437BFBBF.1060804@keystreams.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? > > 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" > Check out BackupPC. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ . It uses rsync/ssh and does incremental backups and has a nifty GUI to monitor the backups of all the servers. I use it to backup about 8 servers and it works really well. -- Roman Volf Keystreams Internet Solutions volfman@keystreams.com
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