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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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Bryn |
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