Re: [gentoo-server] [Somewhat OT] Backup Solution (Gentoo Based)

[l'Alessio]

I suggest bacula too. I use it in more than one farm and It saved my  
skin in differents way.

Il giorno 06/giu/06, alle ore 23:03, Kirk Hoganson ha scritto:

> Not really a Gentoo specific problem, but one related to my Gentoo
> servers none the less.  Hopefully someone here can provide some
> insight that I lack, in finding a good overall solution to our
> backup needs.
>
> We have about 50 Gentoo servers filling different roles, and we
> have been outgrowing our current backup solution (bash scripts on
> each host), for some time.
>
> I recently got the budget for a central host with a couple TB of
> storage.  Now it falls to me to come up with a replacement for
> these disparate scripts that fills our specific needs.
>
> What are those needs?  Well, I'm glad your curious.  They are
> actually pretty simple.
> 1. We have directories with data that change daily on many of these
> hosts.  These must be backed up incrementaly.
> 2. We need to create regular system "snapshots", or recovery CD's
> to backup the systems and their configurations in the event of
> failure.
> 3. There are systems whose data changes on a less frequent basis,
> and these need only be backed up weekly.
> 4. We also have several MySQL databases that also must be backed up
> daily in their entirity.  One of these DB's is about 20G, the rest
> are much smaller.
> 5. All of this data is compressed, encrypted, and sent to an
> outside vendor for offsite storage.  We don't need to archive much
> of our data.  Our needs are primarily data and system recovery.
>
> We were considering AMANDA as a central solution, but it's lack of
> MySQL integration made it only a partial solution, with some
> addition hacking/scripting to make it viable for all of our data.
>
> I would like to keep as much logic and control on the central
> system to ease maintenance.  I would also prefer to use standard
> tools wherever possible, to avoid unnecessary complication.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts about how some of this can be
> accomplished, using a software package (like AMANDA), or an in
> house model putting together common system tools (perl, ssh, tar,
> etc.)
>
> I am really hoping to find something that we won't regret in a
> month, because it is a ridiculous hack, or a horribly flawed
> architecture.
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