Re: [gentoo-server] Backup Software

[Joby Walker]

We use IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager.  Nice tool, simple install, and 
works well.  Just not free...quite the opposite.

jbw

Bryn Hughes wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering what everyone is using to back up their Gentoo servers.
> Right now I'm using Amanda which works fairly well but I'm thinking
> about changing over to something new.
>
> My environment:
> - 2 servers, about 120 gigs total disk space between them
> - a 75G (native) DLT tape library (Quantum 4500 with 15G tapes)
>
> What I like about amanda:
> - network backup, one server controls everything
> - point-in-time restore (I can choose to restore a file from last week
> and it will tell me what tape it needs)
> - decently reliable after initial setup
> - intelligent planning of incremental backups automatically
>
> What I don't like about amanda:
> - can't append to the previous day's tape (lots of tapes that only get
> 15% full or so with incrementals)
> - large dumps cannot span multiple tapes
> - handling of above results in amanda spending hours writing to a tape
> just to start all over again on the next tape when it runs out of space
> - no GUI
>
> I want to find something that uses my tapes more effectively and wastes
> less time than amanda.  What I don't want to loose is the indexing
> functions and the ability to backup both my servers (and as many more as
> I add in the future) without having to actually mount the partitions to
> be backed up to the backup server.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts?  I've been poking around and I've found BURT
> but that doesn't seem to have any activity since 1999 or so.  Bacula
> looks promising also (in fact right now it seems to be the closest to
> what I'm looking for).  Anyone have any experience?
>
> Bryn
>