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Kirk, |
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 at 3:03pm, Kirk Hoganson wrote: |
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> What are those needs? Well, I'm glad your curious. They are actually pretty |
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> simple. |
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> 1. We have directories with data that change daily on many of these hosts. |
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> These must be backed up incrementaly. |
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> 2. We need to create regular system "snapshots", or recovery CD's to backup |
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> the systems and their configurations in the event of failure. |
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> 3. There are systems whose data changes on a less frequent basis, and these |
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> need only be backed up weekly. |
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> 4. We also have several MySQL databases that also must be backed up daily in |
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> their entirity. One of these DB's is about 20G, the rest are much smaller. |
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> 5. All of this data is compressed, encrypted, and sent to an outside vendor |
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> for offsite storage. We don't need to archive much of our data. |
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> Our needs are primarily data and system recovery. |
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> We were considering AMANDA as a central solution, but it's lack of MySQL |
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> integration made it only a partial solution, with some addition |
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> hacking/scripting to make it viable for all of our data. |
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> I would like to keep as much logic and control on the central system to ease |
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> maintenance. I would also prefer to use standard tools wherever possible, to |
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> avoid unnecessary complication. |
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> Does anyone have any thoughts about how some of this can be accomplished, |
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> using a software package (like AMANDA), or an in house model putting together |
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> common system tools (perl, ssh, tar, etc.) |
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> I am really hoping to find something that we won't regret in a month, because |
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> it is a ridiculous hack, or a horribly flawed architecture. |
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I would suggest looking at bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ . This is a |
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free open source backup program that likely meets most of your needs. |
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Bacula has a moderately active users mailing list, detailed |
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documentation, MySQL or postgreSQL as backup catalog options, and |
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responsive developers. |
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chris |
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Chris Shelton |
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