David Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What backup stratagies are people using? And what pitfalls/benefits do > they have?
* First line of defense: RAID * Second line of defense: rsync home dirs and things nightly off of server and onto spare disk on random machines; I can then get to this via /yesterday/home--partain/. (Remember that disk is nearly as cheap as tape these days, and *way* more convenient.) * Third line of defense: run Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/), with full dumps once a week to tape (kept off-site), and with incrementals left on disk the other weeknights. To read an Amanda tape/blob, you need sh, mt, dd, and tar (or dump). If your site has more than, say, 6000 servers, Amanda won't be able to cope. Obviously, there are Arusha Project (http://ark.sourceforge.net/) bits that help w/ most of that. Will _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
