Actually, there is a way to make time machine on an apple see/use network drives. I messed with it for a little while, but at that point there were still some bugs that cause backups to not be reliable (?) with time capsule. As a result, simply picked up a 4 bay USB drive holder for all the IDE drives I had laying around here, and solved the problem, plus gave myself a little extra working room. If anyone is *really* interested in making time machine work with network drives, I'll dig out the little bit of magic I found and where to put it, and post it up.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Steven S. Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
