On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, John Abreau wrote:
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> alfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
Gtar works better since you can compress the backup copy. I've been using
it, since large ide drives are now almost comparable to tape, and are
random access, which of course makes restoration quicker.
--Dean
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> 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.
>
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