Maybe you should look at some of the better options out there for network backup options. Amanda is one I know that is being used by some people around here. Here at my work, we use Bacula. Bacula seem plenty happy to use 3 500gb drives we have exported via AoE to do it's backups.
One of the benefits of the bigger backup apps is the idea of doing incremental backups. This usually gives you smaller backup files. It also allows you the ability to keep a longer history around. Most of the big backup apps will give you plenty of tools for recovery. Many will even do backup of the results of a script. We use Bacula to dump our postgres database to a SQL file that is importable to pretty much any DB. Might take a little massage work, but it beats trying to backup the data files. Also you could easily backup configuration data and decide not to backup your binaries. For instance on Debian, you could backup your /etc including /etc/apt/sources* and then backup a copy of the results from dpkg --get-selections so you could reinstall from scratch fast. Critch ----- "Don Delp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used to use a backup script I found online that created .bz2 > archives of each of your directories 1 level up from root. I found > it > handy because it would create a different archive for each user and > was a nice balance between huge archives and too many archives. I > lost my backup drive and haven't started backups again yet. > > I've been looking at a few different solutions, but I think BackupPC > looks best for multi-pc backups. It keeps single copies of redundant > files (even across different clients). With my last setup I could > only manage to keep a few old backups before I ran out of space. > > Does anyone have any experience with BackupPC, or suggestions on a > better way to handle backups? Personally I only have ~4 hosts to > backup, but I'd enjoy hearing about larger backup schemes as well. > > -- Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
