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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 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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Immutability, Three Rules of: |
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(1) If a tarpaulin can flap, it will. |
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(2) If a small boy can get dirty, he will. |
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(3) If a teenager can go out, he will. |