Hello, This is not a request for help, or a complaint. I have been using flexbackup for almost two years now (liking it very much!) and thought I would post a note describing how I use it, in the hopes that it might be useful.
I have five Linux systems and three MSWindows2000 systems which I backup using flexbackup. Each of the five Linux systems has two hard disks: one is the system/home disk (20Gb), the other is the backup image disk (40Gb). Cron runs a perl script once per day which in turn runs flexbackup. The perl script determines the level of backup (0-9) for the given day of the month. Flexbackup generates a compressed .afio file in an 'images' directory on the backup disk. So far the amount of backup data has been such that I have almost two years worth of backup images on these systems, with still room on the backup disks to spare. On only one system have I needed to go through and start purging the oldest images to free up disk space. (But, I just today installed a 180Gb backup drive in that system, replacing the older 40Gb one.) I have a sixth Linux system which I use as a backup-backup system. It has 500Gb of disk space. Each night cron runs a perl script which copies over the days backup images from each of the five other Linux systems. So then I have two copies of each days backup images, on two separate systems in two different buildings. The three MSWindows systems have their C: drives mounted onto the backup-backup systems filesystem. These drives then are backed up each night along with the backup-backup system. So far this system has worked very well. I don't have to futz with tapes (which I don't have much faith in). All of the backup data is 'on-line' for each system. The only weak point at the moment is that there is only one copy of the backup images for the backup-backup system and the three MSWindows systems. (I may set up one of the five systems as a backup for the backup-backup.) I have been able to restore files several times since I started this system. I have not yet had to do a full-restore (thankfully). Comments welcome. Perl scripts and further details available upon request. Cheers, Scott -- * Scott Coburn * Brookhaven National Laboratory * [EMAIL PROTECTED] 631.344.7110 * This message brought to you by Linux. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
