G.T.Smith wrote:
Dirvish is impressive but I think it would best with a SAN
or dedicated backend backup server solution.
We use it since some time; it was straight forward to set up.
Well, if one doesn't complicate it oneself. :-) We additionally
backup some of our data to a server at a hosting company
(HostEurope); that data is very confidential and we don't really
trust the security of the hosting situation. So we have a
(cryptographically authenticated) VPN to that server, over which we
do an NFS mount of one of its filesystems. There resides a file
that we crypt-mount locally on our system and then do a
dirvish-backup into that
locally-crypt-mounted-filesystem-in-file-on-NFS-mounted-directory-over-VPN-on-untrusted-host.
Yep, that's a mouth full. :-)
When one of my staff proposed that solution, I didn't like it at
first for its complexity -- but it works like a charm and is much
cheaper than an outsourced backup solution; hosted servers are
really cheap nowadays. (And please note that this is our 2nd backup
of the data; the 1st backup is locally in our company and is used
normally. That's why we don't want to spend too much money here.)
Joachim
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