From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 03:40:51 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 A16B116A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volfman@keystreams.com) Received: from mailbox.keystreams.com (mailbox.keystreams.com [207.158.28.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C9443D4C for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:40:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from volfman@keystreams.com) Received: (qmail 76100 invoked by uid 1012); 16 Nov 2005 19:39:37 -0800 Received: from 10.8.0.6 by mail.keystreams.com (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.86.2/1001. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(10.8.0.6):. Processed in 0.05466 secs); 17 Nov 2005 03:39:37 -0000 X-Antivirus-Keystreams-Mail-From: volfman@keystreams.com via mail.keystreams.com X-Antivirus-Keystreams: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(10.8.0.6):. Processed in 0.05466 secs Process 76094) Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.8.0.6?) (volfman@keystreams.com@10.8.0.6) by mailbox.keystreams.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 19:39:37 -0800 Message-ID: <437BFBBF.1060804@keystreams.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:40:47 -0800 From: Roman Volf User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 03:40:51 -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? > > 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