Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-04-16 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:12 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:11:51PM +1100, Trent Murray wrote: Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN I have recently come across Dirvish which

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Acknowledging the risk of being flamed for promoting the mag - Linux Journal 153 Jan 07 has an article that's worth a read, on a 12-PC mixed OS home network backup using Duplicity. Kevin Shackleton. On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:11 +1100, Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a backup

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-23 Thread David Kempe
Trent for this scenario backuppc is what you want. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html is not an imaging solution though - for that you will need to pay money. For about 1-2K acronis true image enterprise server does what you want and more - live imaging to central server, without

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-23 Thread Michael Fox
A few weeks back, Acronis was giving away older copies of True Image for free. All you had to do was register for it. Just for reference, this was the URL http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7 As you will see its since expired :( On 23/02/2007, at 10:39 PM, David Kempe wrote: Trent for this

[SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-22 Thread Trent Murray
Hi all, Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN Apart from performing basic incremental data backups it will also need to be able to perform disk imaging over the wire (e.g disk images of windows boxes to be

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-22 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:11:51PM +1100, Trent Murray wrote: Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN Apart from performing basic incremental data backups it will also need to be able to perform disk

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-22 Thread ABD Computer Installations
Trent , As a suggestion ! Rsync can perform some life saving stuff. cheers =MK= On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:11 +1100, Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN Apart from

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

2007-02-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:11:51PM +1100, Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a backup solution that can be run centrally from a linux box and can also backup windows boxes on a LAN Apart from performing basic incremental data backups it will also need to be able to perform

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-19 Thread Matt M
I've just been involved in a network project that's considered backups around the 300GB mark. In the end we decided it was too expensive to setup and run, and led us to review exactly what data we need to back up. This is the smartest thing to do in any backup situation, given the ratio of

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-18 Thread Ben de Luca
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John Aranibar [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Backup System I installed a hardware raid some time ago for backup/security. One of the disks became corrupted

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-18 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=David I installed a hardware raid some time ago for backup/security. One of the disks became corrupted and the other dutifully mirrored the corruption. I'm not a geek, so I questioned the manufacturer of the raid card and they simply told me that raid copied whatever was there! Huh?

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-18 Thread Terry Collins
David wrote: ..snip Does anyone have any comment about this? Sounds spot on. You have raid in case your hardware fails - it didn't fail and raid should allow you to recover/carry on/? You have backups in case you loose your data or it becomes corrupted. These are two independent things.

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-18 Thread dazza
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:21:19AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are DLT drives which do 80 gig - maybe 100, although I haven't seen [ .. ] If I'm not mistaken, the number in DLT whatever e.g. DLT80 refers to the capacity after

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-18 Thread mlh
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:44:04AM +1100, DaZZa wrote: The best approach to backing up is usually to say no. Surprisingly little data on many machines is not recoverable or reproducable or that inportant in the first place. With a statement like that, it's pretty obvious you haven't

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-17 Thread dazza
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Aranibar wrote: I will like an advise on a backup system, I need to back up about 300GB now and in about 11 months time, it will add up to 4/5 TerraB. This data needs to be kept safe for about 3 years. And there after it will be the same every year or potentially

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-17 Thread mlh
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:21:19AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are DLT drives which do 80 gig - maybe 100, although I haven't seen [ .. ] If I'm not mistaken, the number in DLT whatever e.g. DLT80 refers to the capacity after compression, assuming 2x compression, which is typical.

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-17 Thread David
I installed a hardware raid some time ago for backup/security. One of the disks became corrupted and the other dutifully mirrored the corruption. I'm not a geek, so I questioned the manufacturer of the raid card and they simply told me that raid copied whatever was there! Huh? Does anyone have

[SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-13 Thread John Aranibar
Hello Sluggers, I will like an advise on a backup system, I need to back up about 300GB now and in about 11 months time, it will add up to 4/5 TerraB. This data needs to be kept safe for about 3 years. And there after it will be the same every year or potentially increase by about 30% or more.

Re: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-13 Thread Terry Collins
John Aranibar wrote: Hello Sluggers, I will like an advise on a backup system, Try the archives for a few discussions on backing up. Basically; a) what is the purpose b) when will you need to read the backup c) how fast will recover need to be. d) is it

RE: [SLUG] Backup System

2003-01-13 Thread Jon Biddell
Don't know about 1Tb on a *single* tape, but you could look at the IBM LTO tape drives... The one I used to use had a 7 tape auto-changer, with 100Gb per tape - assuming 1 tape was a cleaning tape (auto cleaning is VERY nice), and a 2:1 compression (whether you like compression or not -