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(just my imho) |
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Be happy with amanda. Be happy with its lack of interface. Thats why its an |
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unix. |
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OR. |
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Write your own backup scripts. Depending on the type of data, it will |
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probably be a lot more efficient and controllable this way. I personally |
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wouldn't rely on something thats its not written by me, when it comes to |
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backups :) |
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Then again, currently we do backups of over 1.2TB of data, with around 8 mil |
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files. Every backup system I've tried barfed completely, utterly and |
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totally. |
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Cheers, |
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Dan. |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Andrew Fant" <andrew.fant@×××××.edu> |
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To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:45 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Backup Software |
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> I suspect that it would be out of your price range, but I do want to say |
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> that legato networker does work under gentoo, even if it isn't r*d-h*t. |
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> Just a data point to add to the mix. |
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> |
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> Andy |
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> |
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> --On Monday, March 22, 2004 09:41:09 -0800 Bryn Hughes <linux@×××××××.ca> |
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> wrote: |
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> |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > I'm wondering what everyone is using to back up their Gentoo servers. |
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> > Right now I'm using Amanda which works fairly well but I'm thinking |
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about |
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> > changing over to something new. |
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> > |
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> > My environment: |
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> > - 2 servers, about 120 gigs total disk space between them |
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> > - a 75G (native) DLT tape library (Quantum 4500 with 15G tapes) |
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> > |
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> > What I like about amanda: |
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> > - network backup, one server controls everything |
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> > - point-in-time restore (I can choose to restore a file from last week |
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> > and it will tell me what tape it needs) |
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> > - decently reliable after initial setup |
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> > - intelligent planning of incremental backups automatically |
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> > |
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> > What I don't like about amanda: |
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> > - can't append to the previous day's tape (lots of tapes that only get |
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> > 15% full or so with incrementals) |
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> > - large dumps cannot span multiple tapes |
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> > - handling of above results in amanda spending hours writing to a tape |
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> > just to start all over again on the next tape when it runs out of space |
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> > - no GUI |
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> > |
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> > I want to find something that uses my tapes more effectively and wastes |
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> > less time than amanda. What I don't want to loose is the indexing |
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> > functions and the ability to backup both my servers (and as many more as |
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> > I add in the future) without having to actually mount the partitions to |
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> > be backed up to the backup server. |
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> > |
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> > Anyone have any thoughts? I've been poking around and I've found BURT |
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> > but that doesn't seem to have any activity since 1999 or so. Bacula |
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> > looks promising also (in fact right now it seems to be the closest to |
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> > what I'm looking for). Anyone have any experience? |
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> > |
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> > Bryn |
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> > |
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