Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
Hello, I am backing up 5 servers on one centralized machines using rsnapshot It is doing a perfect job, including : -- SSH transport. -- Rsync based. -- Incremental backup. As It uses a symlink strategy, It does not use very much space on the backup device. It is in the ports /usr/ports/sysutil/rsnapshot and described as : rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync(1). rsnapshot makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required. It is written entirely in perl with no module dependencies, and has been tested with versions 5.004 through 5.8.1. WWW:http://www.rsnapshot.org -- I am backing up 2To of data, with a daily flow of 20 to 100 Go. The first backup is quite long - after it's a matter of hours (1 or 2 max). In order to fully automate the process, I have created an ssh key signature that allows me to access directly as root - if you would like more security, you could create a specific user… which will lead you to ownership problem, unless very well setup. The main problem with mac would be to sync the specific MetaData files specific to the Mac. I don't think these are synced in my backup. This is only a problem if your users are not naming their files with the right extension (.doc, .pdf, …). If you are syncing OSX 10.4 use the Apple provided rsync and not any other (more steady). The main piece if to configure rsnapshot.conf cron # Cron # 0 3 * * 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily; 0 4 1 * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly; # # rsnapshot.conf - rsnapshot configuration file # # # # # PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING RULES: # # # # This file requires tabs between elements # # # # Directories require a trailing slash: # # right: /home/ # # wrong: /home# # # # ### # CONFIG FILE VERSION # ### config_version 1.2 ### # SNAPSHOT ROOT DIRECTORY # ### # All snapshots will be stored under this root directory. #snapshot_root /var/cache/rsnapshot/ snapshot_root /home/snapshot/ # If no_create_root is enabled, rsnapshot will not automatically create the # snapshot_root directory. This is particularly useful if you are backing # up to removable media, such as a FireWire drive. # #no_create_root 1 # # EXTERNAL PROGRAM DEPENDENCIES # # # LINUX USERS: Be sure to uncomment cmd_cp. This gives you extra features. # EVERYONE ELSE: Leave cmd_cp commented out for compatibility. # # See the README file or the man page for more details. # #cmd_cp /bin/cp # uncomment this to use the rm program instead of the built-in perl routine cmd_rm /bin/rm # rsync must be enabled for anything to work. cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync # Uncomment this to enable remote ssh backups over rsync. cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh # Comment this out to disable syslog support. cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger # Uncomment this to specify a path to du for disk usage checks. cmd_du /usr/bin/du # # BACKUP INTERVALS# # Must be unique and in ascending order # # i.e. hourly, daily, weekly, etc. # # # The interval names (hourly, daily, ...) are just names and have no influence # on the length of the interval. The numbers set the number of snapshots to # keep for each interval (hourly.0, hourly.1, ...). # The length of the interval is set by the time between two executions of # rsnapshot interval name, this is normally done via cron. # Feel free to adopt the names, and the sample cron file under /etc/ cron.d/rsnapshot # to your needs. The only requirement is that the intervals must be listed # in ascending order. To activate just uncomment the entries. #interval hourly 6 intervaldaily 5 intervalmonthly 1 #interval monthly 6 # GLOBAL OPTIONS # # All are optional, with sensible defaults # # If your version of rsync supports --link-dest, you should enable this. # This is the best way to support special files (FIFOs, etc) cross- platform. # The default is 0 (off). # In Debian GNU cp is available which is superior to link_dest, so it should be # commented
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. I like Bacula (www.bacula.org) easier to set up than Amanda IMHO, and works with FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. Full, Differential, and incremental backups, plus encryption. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:45:45PM -0700, Kenny Dail wrote: I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. I like Bacula (www.bacula.org) easier to set up than Amanda IMHO, and works with FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. Full, Differential, and incremental backups, plus encryption. You could use rsyncx over ssh? Google for OS X rsync and you'll find several tutorials. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpjwrhpsFdor.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
On Jan 29, 2007, at Monday, Jan29, 2007 12:45 PM, Kenny Dail wrote: I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. Here is a script I run out of crontab on my Mac. Things to note: - Uses tar to create the backup. - Uses rcp to get the backup to the FreeBSD box. Could use scp if security is an issue. - It is a cshell script. - No software to find and install, everything you need is already on your Mac and freeBSD boxes. - I do a primary backup every night; no secondaries. - The script has been in production for about a year now and works flawlessly. - Restores are easy, just reverse the process. - I get an email daily giving me the status of the backup. - The tar file is written to /tmp before it is copied to the backup server so disk space could be an issue. - The tar file could be gziped (tar czf ) to save space at the expense of cpu time. - The log directory contains the status of the last two backups. - The backup server maintains 31 days of primaries. ## #!/bin/csh set LHOST=`hostname` set BASE=/backup_4/$LHOST set INFOPATH=/Users/root/dump_info set RHOST=some.remote.host set RUSER=rmotuser set TARCMD=tar cf set BKUP_DIR=/Users set SUCCESS_SUBJECT=$LHOST primary succeeded set FAIL_SUBJECT=$LHOST primary failed set MAIL_TO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] set SEQFILE=$INFOPATH/Sequence echo *** `date` $LHOST Begin setup for this primary backup echo *** `date` Set sequence number of this dump if(-s $SEQFILE) then set LAST=`cat $SEQFILE` else echo WARNING: $SEQFILE non-existant or 0 size echo Set last sequence to 0 set LAST=0 endif echo *** `date` Last sequence number used: $LAST switch($LAST) case 0: set SEQ=1 breaksw case 1: set SEQ=0 breaksw default: echo WARNING: Dump sequence is invalid: $LAST echoSet dump sequence to 0 set SEQ=0 breaksw endsw echo *** `date` Sequence number of this dump is: $SEQ echo *** `date` Set path variables set INFO=$INFOPATH/primary.$SEQ set FILE=Users_$SEQ.tar set [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$BASE/$FILE set TMPFILE=/var/tmp/$FILE echo Path to backup: $BKUP_DIR echo Log file..: $INFO echo Temporary file: $TMPFILE echo Remote file...: $RFILE echo *** `date` $LHOST Setup for this primary backup complete echo *** `date` $LHOST primary backup begun $INFO echo *** `date` Sequence number of this dump is: $SEQ$INFO echo *** `date` get space used in $BKUP_DIR $INFO du -hs $BKUP_DIR/* $INFO echo *** `date` tar $BKUP_DIR to $TMPFILE$INFO $TARCMD $TMPFILE $BKUP_DIR $INFO set rslt=$status if($rslt != 0) then echo FATAL: tar failed, status=$rslt $INFO set subject=$FAIL_SUBJECT goto pgm_exit endif echo *** `date` Check size of $TMPFILE $INFO ls -l $TMPFILE $INFO echo *** `date` rcp $TMPFILE to $RFILE $INFO rcp $TMPFILE $RFILE $INFO set rslt=$status if($rslt != 0) then echo FATAL: rcp failed, status=$rslt $INFO set subject=$FAIL_SUBJECT goto pgm_exit endif echo *** `date` rm $TMPFILE $INFO rm $TMPFILE $INFO set rslt=$status if($rslt != 0) then echo FATAL: rm failed, status=$rslt $INFO set subject=$FAIL_SUBJECT goto pgm_exit endif set subject=$SUCCESS_SUBJECT echo *** `date` Record sequence number of this dump $INFO echo $SEQ $SEQFILE pgm_exit: echo *** `date` Exit status=$subject $INFO echo *** `date` $LHOST primary backup ended $INFO mail -s $subject $MAIL_TO $INFO exit 0 ### ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable. RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I don't), I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from Macports, similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org Here is a partial (or possibly complete) list of file metadata that I believe would be lost by using the stock rsync in OS X: - get info/Finder comments (this has been replaced with Spotlight comments in 10.4 which are saved to the Spotlight DB, not as file metadata) - application associations for files without file extensions - application associations for many OS 9 files, since OS 9 did not force file extensions and many users didn't bother with them - custom icons pasted on On Jan 26, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Gable Barber wrote: On 1/26/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RsyncX for Mac will sync to a FreeBSD filesystem. Thank you. I will try these out. Gable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007, Joe Auty wrote: I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable. RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I don't), I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from Macports, similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org The resource forks matter to some OS X software, in particular the Reunion 8 genealogy program (which may also have issues when run on case sensitive file systems). Reunion is the only OS X program I personally use where this has been an issue (resource forks, not case insensitivity problems). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. -- H.L. Mencken, ``Minority Report'' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
On Jan 29, 2007, at 14:00, Joe Auty wrote: I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable. RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I don't), I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from Macports, similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org Here is a partial (or possibly complete) list of file metadata that I believe would be lost by using the stock rsync in OS X: - get info/Finder comments (this has been replaced with Spotlight comments in 10.4 which are saved to the Spotlight DB, not as file metadata) - application associations for files without file extensions - application associations for many OS 9 files, since OS 9 did not force file extensions and many users didn't bother with them - custom icons pasted on I have heard that also. However, I have been using it for backups for about 3 years now and every time the backup disk boots and everything I check works normally. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
Amanda works well on MacOSX and FreeBSD. virtual tapes, encrypted backup and (just as important) easy to restore! -- Martin On 1/26/07, Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. This one looks interesting to me: http://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ If anyone has used an open source solution for this , I would genuinely appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance - Gable Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. This one looks interesting to me: http://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ If anyone has used an open source solution for this , I would genuinely appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance - Gable Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. This one looks interesting to me: http://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/ If anyone has used an open source solution for this , I would genuinely appreciate hearing about it. I don't, but you could use rsync over ssh if you just want a mirrored copy... and if you set up rsync to archive changed files you can keep a history as well. I do that for about 20 servers now and it works great. No reason a mac wouldn't work. Let me know if you're interested in the scripts... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
On 1/26/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RsyncX for Mac will sync to a FreeBSD filesystem. Thank you. I will try these out. Gable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
Gable Barber wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. You might like to try duplicity or rdiff-backup. Both are python-based incremental backup solutions, that can work over encrypted connections. duplicity can also encrypt the backed-up data for untrusted central sites, while rdiff-backup has the advantage that the backup is a normal mirror of the backed-up machine (plus reverse increments), so you can pick though it. duplicity is initiated from the client over FTP/SCP/DAV/S3, while rdiff-backup is initiated by the server normally using SSH. I've been using rdiff-backup on a few dozen FreeBSD servers for a year or so now. I've not tried them on my macs yet but I don't see a reason why it *wouldn't* work - python tends to be pretty portable. I'll try it on the macs this weekend, in fact. Howie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote backup solutions
Goran, Although I haven't used Bacula in a production environment, I am currently using it to perform automated full/incremental backups of my Windows machines at home and it works perfectly. For my purposes it's a bit of overkill, but does the job with minimal fuss. Of all the researching I had done (way back), this was the best solution and will probably suit your needs. Not to mention it has some of the best documentation you could hope to find for an open source solution. -David On 2/8/06, Göran Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ian. This sure looks like a good solutions. Are there anyone that have tried out bacula on FreeBSD 6.0 in a production enviroment? /Goran 2006/2/7, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You might want to look into http://www.bacula.org/ Didnt try it myself, planning to test it soon... They have a windows client from what they say... At 17:25 2006-02-07, Göran Nilsson wrote: Hi all. Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT 4.0 Server up to Windows2003. The backup system should be based on a FreeBSD 6.0 system. In the beginning it won't be that many companys doing remotebackups still, it should be easy grow with the jobs needed. Anyone have a pointer to what i should look for? Shoud the backups be done via a vpn solutions like OpenVPN and rsync? Or should i look for something else? Are there any pitfalls i should lookout for? Anyway any/all feedback is most appriciated. /Goran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél.: (514) 776-MSDI- (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote backup solutions
Thanks Ian. This sure looks like a good solutions. Are there anyone that have tried out bacula on FreeBSD 6.0 in a production enviroment? /Goran 2006/2/7, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You might want to look into http://www.bacula.org/ Didnt try it myself, planning to test it soon... They have a windows client from what they say... At 17:25 2006-02-07, Göran Nilsson wrote: Hi all. Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT 4.0 Server up to Windows2003. The backup system should be based on a FreeBSD 6.0 system. In the beginning it won't be that many companys doing remotebackups still, it should be easy grow with the jobs needed. Anyone have a pointer to what i should look for? Shoud the backups be done via a vpn solutions like OpenVPN and rsync? Or should i look for something else? Are there any pitfalls i should lookout for? Anyway any/all feedback is most appriciated. /Goran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél.: (514) 776-MSDI- (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote backup solutions
Hi all. Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT 4.0 Server up to Windows2003. The backup system should be based on a FreeBSD 6.0 system. In the beginning it won't be that many companys doing remotebackups still, it should be easy grow with the jobs needed. Anyone have a pointer to what i should look for? Shoud the backups be done via a vpn solutions like OpenVPN and rsync? Or should i look for something else? Are there any pitfalls i should lookout for? Anyway any/all feedback is most appriciated. /Goran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote backup solutions
You might want to look into http://www.bacula.org/ Didnt try it myself, planning to test it soon... They have a windows client from what they say... At 17:25 2006-02-07, Göran Nilsson wrote: Hi all. Im looking for som software (opensource) that's scalable to to plenty of remote backups over the Internet. The idea about this is offering small companys to do theire backup to a remote distance, and don't have to concern that much about it. The companys servers are generally NT 4.0 Server up to Windows2003. The backup system should be based on a FreeBSD 6.0 system. In the beginning it won't be that many companys doing remotebackups still, it should be easy grow with the jobs needed. Anyone have a pointer to what i should look for? Shoud the backups be done via a vpn solutions like OpenVPN and rsync? Or should i look for something else? Are there any pitfalls i should lookout for? Anyway any/all feedback is most appriciated. /Goran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél.: (514) 776-MSDI- (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backup Solutions
Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
Try researching Amanda. http://www.amanda.org Amanda is also covered in O'Reilly's Unix Backup and Recovery. - Jamie On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. In my small environment I am using Bacula (www.bacula.org) also it is available on sourceforge. It runs quite well, and the documentation is above the quality of any commercial software I have seen lately. Oh, BTW, it is open source. And the developer is only an email away. Response time for him is usually in an hour or so! I am not related to, get no kickback from, nor even any attaboys from Bacula, but am pleased with the product and am quite happy to make mention of it! Someone on the list recommended it to me, and I forgot to say thanks. It works well and will handle Windows clients as remote backup clients. I cannot help you with commercial backup software. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run wel l on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking fo r software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. I use amanda (/usr/ports/misc/amanda-*) on a Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz machine w/ 2Gbytes of RAM running FreeBSD 4.8. The machine contains a 3ware ATA RAID card with 6 120Gbyte disks attached and concatinated into a single volume and is used for temporary holding space for the dump files. The tape and tape changer device is a Dell PowerEdge 122T with an LTO tape drive connected via an Adaptec SCSI controller. I use `mtx' (/usr/ports/misc/mtx) to control the tape changer. To top it off the machine interfaces to the network using an Intel 1000baseSX ethernet over fiber network card which is sub-interfaced using VLANs onto all of the subnets in our switch infrastructure (this means backup traffic doesn't hit the router). This machine backs up approximately 200Gbytes per night. This consists of 157 partitions accross 64 hosts. The hosts are a combination of Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, DEC (OFS/1), and AIX machines. I get level zero dumps of each partition every 4 days and sometimes more frequently. Backups start at 7PM and typically run for about 6 to 8 hours. Hope that helps. - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backup Solutions
The amanda chapter from the O'Reilly book can be found at: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -Brendan Jamie wrote: Try researching Amanda. http://www.amanda.org Amanda is also covered in O'Reilly's Unix Backup and Recovery. - Jamie On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Just so the original question does get answered, I have successfully used Backup Exec to backup FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris boxes with no real pain to mention. Veritas attempts to hide the fact they have agents for UNIX within backup exec but they are present, you just have to do a little digging on the Veritas web site. The only catches to the entire setup if you wish to use BackupExec is that the backup server must be a windows machine and for backing up FreeBSD machines you must use compat linux. Just my past findings, Scott - Original Message - From: Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:06 AM Subject: Re: Backup Solutions The amanda chapter from the O'Reilly book can be found at: http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html -Brendan Jamie wrote: Try researching Amanda. http://www.amanda.org Amanda is also covered in O'Reilly's Unix Backup and Recovery. - Jamie On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In the last episode (Oct 14), Stephane Raimbault said: I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. We're using Veritas Netbackup, but they only have client support for FreeBSD. Take a look at Tapeware; depending on their definition of Client, you can back up 10 machines for between $700 and $3000 (including 1 yr. of maintenance and support). They also have a 30-day trial download, so you can try it out. http://www.tapeware.com/Products/TapeWare/tw_ms_enter_pack.htm http://www.tapeware.com/Downloads/ -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:38:54 -0400 To: Stephane Raimbault [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Backup Solutions Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:26 PM 10/14/2003, Stephane Raimbault wrote: Hi, I am curious as to what people using FreeBSD use for a Backup Solution. Are there any Comercial software available for Tape Backup Solutions that run well on FreeBSD? I'm looking at using a Dell PowerVault 110T LTO tape drive and was looking for software to utilize to backup the 10 servers and growing in my server farm. Thank you, Stephane. I am sure Bacula can handle your setup. I am also sure Amanda will do the job. If I were in your position, I would try both. Run one for a week or two and then the other. See which works best for you. There are some minor catches with Bacula on FreeBSD for running under the 5X branch with the latest version of bacula. You can follow the threads at the bacula email archive on sourceforge. If you are running FBSD 4.8 you should be fine. There was/is some change to the SCSI (if I recall correctly) coding that Bacula has trouble with. You would be most welcome to email the bacula list at: bacula-users (at) lists.sourceforge.net and ask about your setup and possibilities as well as what you want to do per schedules, drives, etc. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello! I'm supposed to setup a server with the following services: Apache MySQL Email (smtp,pop,webmail) DNS ipfw Filesharing with Samba For this I have two identical equipped PC's, one DAT-writer and one additional large harddisk. The load on the server will not be high so I will only need the first PC to handle these services. The databases for MySQL are small (about 30Mb) /var/mail will be big (about 3Gb) The websites are small (about 50-100Mb) I expect the files to share with samba wont take more than 5Gb Now to my questions: 1) I want daily backups of this, at lest mail and mysql must be backed up daily. The files shared with samba are not that important so a weekly backup is enough. It is not possible for me to change the tape in the DAT-writer more than one time per week. 2) Because I have two computers it would be nice if I could use the second one for redundancy so I can take any of the computers down and do a 'make world'. So. How would you accomplish this? My idea is to use pdumpfs to dump everything to the additional disk every day, and as extra security compress and dump mail and databases to DAT every week. In my solution I dont use the second computer at all, I have no idea aout how to accomplish redundancy. All ideas and tips are welcome! //Erik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear/Beste Patrick, Saturday, December 28, 2002, 4:37:26 PM, you wrote: Hello all, What do you use for a backup solution for your freebsd server? I've got a server running mail and web that I would like to back up on a regular basis. Some of the ideas ive heard: o Buy a second server, and rsync the two o Tape backup (Whats a good freebsd friendly drive?) o DVD-RAM (Is it even supported in FreeBSD?) o USB hard drive By a second disk. A RAID solution would keep them in sync every second. I let the machine make a zip file during the night. (You can block off services to be sure no changes happen during the backup.) Because of idprio/nice you can still work it can still work on it. (make install or so) What works for you? More importantly: Am i sending this to the wrong list? And if so, could you point me in the right direction? I would send this to the questions list. I adjusted the message accordingly. -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
