On 06/02/18 12:50, John H. Bennett III wrote: > > Hello all, > > Long time since I've posted something. I'm curious what others are > using to backup their servers. I know we offer backup to tape > (flexbackup) and backup to workstation (dar) in the product today. > I've personally been using tape, as it's been very, very reliable for > the amount of data I've been backing up, but I now will have a need to > backup ~500GB, and possibly more over time. Using tape isn't going to > work as the backup window is too short for that to complete. I also > don't want to just totally rely on a raid 5 system. I haven't done > much with Raid 6, but that's pretty much burning 2 drives for the > parity stuff. > > I see others are using backup to workstation, but I've also seen what > appears to be some major periodic issues, like losing the catalog, and > not being able to restore being the major one that would cause some > issues. > > I'm getting ready to try to do some testing of my own, but I would > appreciate others sharing their experiences, both good and bad, and > specific add-on products, if not using the default ones. I had been > trying to get Amanda to work, but my day job is pretty much taking up > all of my time, so I'm not able to spend any good time on it. We are using a set of self developed scripts with "rsync" commands at the core. These have been growing with our needs. External media to take off site are usually external 2.5" USB disks at customer sites. Tape backups were not appealing in small business environments and "backup to workstation" means another (Windows?) device needs to be running at that time (which needs maintenance, power protection, etc.).
Before using virtualisation, SMEservers were managing the access to the external USB drives (mount, unmount, file system check, we even had encryption working for these external drives). Nowadays SME runs as a VM and "rsyncs" its backup data onto a local disk drive that is controlled by virtualisation (Proxmox PVE) and Proxmox later runs the "rsync" onto the external drives. BackupPC would most likely be our choice today if we would have to start from scratch. _______________________________________________ Discussion about project organisation and overall direction To unsubscribe, e-mail [email protected] Searchable archive at https://lists.contribs.org/mailman/public/discussion/
