-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kirk,
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 at 3:03pm, Kirk Hoganson wrote: > What are those needs? Well, I'm glad your curious. They are actually pretty > simple. > 1. We have directories with data that change daily on many of these hosts. > These must be backed up incrementaly. > 2. We need to create regular system "snapshots", or recovery CD's to backup > the systems and their configurations in the event of failure. > 3. There are systems whose data changes on a less frequent basis, and these > need only be backed up weekly. > 4. We also have several MySQL databases that also must be backed up daily in > their entirity. One of these DB's is about 20G, the rest are much smaller. > 5. All of this data is compressed, encrypted, and sent to an outside vendor > for offsite storage. We don't need to archive much of our data. > Our needs are primarily data and system recovery. > > We were considering AMANDA as a central solution, but it's lack of MySQL > integration made it only a partial solution, with some addition > hacking/scripting to make it viable for all of our data. > > I would like to keep as much logic and control on the central system to ease > maintenance. I would also prefer to use standard tools wherever possible, to > avoid unnecessary complication. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about how some of this can be accomplished, > using a software package (like AMANDA), or an in house model putting together > common system tools (perl, ssh, tar, etc.) > > I am really hoping to find something that we won't regret in a month, because > it is a ridiculous hack, or a horribly flawed architecture. I would suggest looking at bacula: http://www.bacula.org/ . This is a free open source backup program that likely meets most of your needs. Bacula has a moderately active users mailing list, detailed documentation, MySQL or postgreSQL as backup catalog options, and responsive developers. chris - -- Chris Shelton - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhfG3M5TknMKatUwRAmQJAKCmHiUE0A9C1rnWKmgwNlWX2QkulgCfZOVf Af/Xs5cFsQfMUUuquqRFb7Y= =9c5F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] mailing list
