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Hi, |
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have you had a look at bacula (bacula.org). |
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I am playing around with it at the moment. It's quite heavy to setup but if |
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it's running it is really useful. |
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The biggest advantage (for me) is the fact that it can backup from Windows |
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(using an agent). AFAIK it is the only OpenSource-tool which can do that. |
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There might be one disadvantage: The GUI provided is nearly unusable in |
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productive environment. Maybe there is coming a new, heavily improved one. |
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IMHO it's worth to have a look. |
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Greetings |
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Tobias |
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Am Montag, 22. März 2004 18:41 schrieb Bryn Hughes: |
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> Hi all, |
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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 changing over to something new. |
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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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> 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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> 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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> 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 |
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> as I add in the future) without having to actually mount the partitions |
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> to be backed up to the backup server. |
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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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