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Nigel, |
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There's something I don't understand in your setup. What does |
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exactly boxbackup store in your backup server? Do you have an exact copy |
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of the backed up system? Do you have the possibility of reverting the |
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original system to its state on a given date? |
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Best regards |
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Jose |
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Nigel Marsh wrote: |
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>I don't know about better. Box backup means that my clients never have to |
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>change a tape, store it somewhere off site or even think about their backups. |
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>we take care of that on the server alone. |
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>It works a little like rsync so large files only have the changed section |
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>backed up as a patch. It can also be told to work like tape but I only ever |
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>use it in its lazy rsync style mode. |
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>A few points (in no particular order) that are expanded upon on the web site. |
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>http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup |
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>The data is encrypted over the wire: |
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>The data is encrypted in storage: |
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>clients don't need to trust us not to peek |
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>The compression ratio is fairly good: |
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>The first one I see before me here is a very small business with 23G of data. |
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>They are using 11G on the backup server. |
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>backups occur only when there is data to back up: |
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>By default the client checks for changes approximately every hour. If there is |
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>something new then it is backed up or if a file has changed then, the diff is |
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>backed up. The hourly backup means you get a small trickle of network usage |
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>rather than a deluge at set backup times. |
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>It uses system raid or will impliment its own userland raid. |
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>After the initial transfer, the data over the wire is minimal: |
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>As all my clients are backing up via adsl links, I do the initial backup on |
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>site with a clone of the main backup server ( a gentoo laptop with a firewire |
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>drive ) and then transfer this to the main server. |
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>Recovery is trivial and involves using an ftp like interface on the client. |
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>A native win32 client is currently in the works as is an OSX one. |
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>if for some reason the backup server is unavailable, the client will just keep |
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>trying every 5 minutes until it is. |
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>A client is allocated a soft and hard limit of space on the server. When the |
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>limit is reached the files are rotated with the oldest versions of a file |
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>being removed first. |
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>Old versions of your files are still available unless of course they have been |
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>removed during the rotation. |
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>Once set up, it is a no brainer. Watch the logs and get on with something more |
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>important. |
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>This backup server is behind a lowly 1Mb adsl link. It currently stores 200G |
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>of clients data and the trickle of backup traffic that comes over it doesn't |
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>even interupt a UT2K4 session. ;) |
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>Well, that is my situation with this software. If you are interested in it, I |
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>would suggest that you join the mailing list. Ben is very accessible and is |
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>very open to questions and suggestions. |
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>I have been using this with my clients now for about 6 months and have not had |
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>a single problem. |
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>I would like to see a client ported to my zaurus. :) |
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>That may have been a little more than you asked for and I only just got around |
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>to answering the question about picking something not in portage. |
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>The install of this is so trivial that I cannot see it being in portage is any |
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>great advantage. You run the usual ./configure make make-backup-client 0r |
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>make-backup-server. The binaries are in /usr/loca/bin and it is time for the |
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>very simple setup. If I get some time and noone beats me to it I may cut my |
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>ebuild teeth on this simple app. |
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>Nige. |
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>On Friday 22 Oct 2004 06:56, Ben Munat wrote: |
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>>Just out of curiosity, why pick something not in portage? Does it do |
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>>something better? |
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>>Ben |
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>>Nigel Marsh wrote: |
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>>>I recently came accross Box Backup and am very happy with it. |
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>>>http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/ |
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>>>On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 17:48, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: |
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>>>> Hi there, |
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>>>> I sent this to the gentoo-user list without much success, I hope in |
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>>>>the server list there are more people doing backups... you know what |
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>>>>they say: "there are only two kind of people: those doing backups and |
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>>>>those that never lost any data". I hope I become one of the third kind, |
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>>>>those that never lost any data but are doing backups :o) |
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>>>> I'm searching for some backup software with the following |
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>>>>requirements: |
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>>>> * Capability to scale from a single machine to backups of full |
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>>>>networks, including heterogeneous OS (Linux, Windows,...) |
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>>>> * Capability to do full or incremental backups |
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>>>> * Network friendly (don't wanna have my network down because the |
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>>>>backup traffic ate all the bandwidth) |
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>>>> * Possibility of using different backup media (tape, CD, DVD, HD,...) |
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>>>> * Ease of maintenance and recovery, preferably with unattended |
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>>>> operation (don't wanna be hanging around changing tapes) |
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>>>> * Snapshot backups of live file systems (don't wanna have to stop my |
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>>>> web/mail/database server to do the backup) |
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>>>> * Ready to go (so please, don't tell me to use tar / cpio / mt) |
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>>>> * Of course open source |
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>>>> After a preliminary search, I've found Amanda, Mondo Rescue and |
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>>>>Bacula, all of them in portage. I would like to hear experiences, and |
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>>>>thoughts about this. |
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>>>> Thanks in advance, best regards |
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>>>> Jose |
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