-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 alfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Anyone have an opinion on backup software for a small network of Suse > systems - mostly workstations - one "real" server - Raid 5 etc ... The > server will have a DLT drive. I read an article a while ago, I think in SysAdmin magazine, about using rsync for snapshot backups; I'll be setting it up at home next week, once UPS delivers the hard drives. Basically the backup servers run an hourly cron job to replicate the snapshot directory using hard links, then run rsync against the clients to be backed up. The result is essentially a complete mirror in the current snapshot directory, and a series of hourly snapshots which reflect earlier versions of files that have been modified. A second cron job would do the same on a nightly basis, so you could provide daily snapshots as well as hourly. Two or more backup servers doing this independently would provide a bit of redundancy in case one of the hard drives ever fails, and archiving to tape or dvdr should be easy to add if you're uncomfortable trusting hard drives. Mounting the snapshot directory over nfs (read-only, of course) provides users the ability to easily restore their own files, so they don't have to dump the task on their sysadmins. I'll be using removable IDE drive trays with 180 GB drives for my backups, so I can do archiving easily just by swapping out and storing the old hard drive and popping in a new one. It doesn't hurt that large IDE hard drives are dirt cheap when compared to something like DLT. > Arkeia ? BRU? Any other options? Short learning curve/ease of use > preferred so I can have less Command Line inclined people run this for me > :) > > Also on the LAN are several Win2k Servers, e.g an Eexchange server & one > machine is running the authentication and PVC stuff - bonus points for a > solution that allows me to also backup the sales guys' windows laptop... > Will mount those drives over samba .. Sure, mount the smb shares on the backup server, and rsync should work fine with them. - -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.6 02/09/2003 iQCVAwUBPlm9/VV9A5rVx7XZAQK2TgQA2Hk9WcsCDKcTY1n9sXI0gPZOAomVNXdE 7PS48JLGv7PEojtpON2tERc66YN9S1g+NGHgr3DB3kcDAmbJsPS3i80wgmZgpuC7 JeqYhDWFoLHfyJt9dIZqI30HZGi7gW7BVvHf/VTq//c4Pz58kTNdyOaQjfCkPwvx w0LOsL3cByQ= =MGIw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
