Re: [gentoo-server] Backup Software

[Dan Podeanu]

(just my imho)

Be happy with amanda. Be happy with its lack of interface. Thats why its an
unix.

OR.

Write your own backup scripts. Depending on the type of data, it will
probably be a lot more efficient and controllable this way. I personally
wouldn't rely on something thats its not written by me, when it comes to
backups :)

Then again, currently we do backups of over 1.2TB of data, with around 8 mil
files. Every backup system I've tried barfed completely, utterly and
totally.

Cheers,
Dan.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Fant" <andrew.fant@×××××.edu>
To: <gentoo-server@l.g.o>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Backup Software


> I suspect that it would be out of your price range, but I do want to say
> that legato networker does work under gentoo, even if it isn't r*d-h*t.
> Just a data point to add to the mix.
>
> Andy
>
> --On Monday, March 22, 2004 09:41:09 -0800 Bryn Hughes <linux@×××××××.ca>
> 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
> >
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