Bacula also allows for backing up to files or directories. I currently have this set up and life is good. I would give a hearty recommendation to Bacula. -- Jessie A. Morris 801-210-1526 [email protected]
On Monday, February 25, 2013 15:56:23 Tod Hansmann wrote: > I'm looking at replacing work's current tape backup system. Currently, > this is a poblem where we're using tapes of a certain size, and we're > maxing out that size so it's spilling over to two tapes, which is messing > up rotations. Getting bigger tapes in this instance requires upgrading the > tape system, which is ridiculously expensive. So, disk storage being cheap > as all get, and easy to implement (physically anyway), I figured I'd look > at that direction. > > We have Windows servers and a lot more Linux servers to backup bits from. > Every piece of software I've looked at sucks, and very few of them want to > do DAS targets. DAS would probably make managing the drives for swapping > out easier, but that's just my opinion. Not to mention, all the software I > have found is also rather expensive for managing the copying of files. I'd > pay a few hundred for something, but everything I've found either doesn't > do DAS (online is the new thing, unless you have TBs of data to backup and > can't do that online) or kills you in all the "agents" licenses they'd need. > > What have you seen that isn't crap and will backup to a local disk I can > then swap out like a tape? Also, Amanda is cool, but I can't seem to find > any docs about DAS as a target. The enterprise zmanda does, but Amanda > seems fairly limited. I might mess with it if someone has better > experience than my VERY limited exposure. > > (As an aside, seriously, backup software sucks, especially in the restore > area. What ever happened to backing up files and then just giving me a > dialog to choose what files and what timeslice I wanted to restore them > to? Why is that so difficult for backup vendors to get?) > > Cheers, > -Tod Hansmann > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
