Hi all, I now have (or will soon have) up to 180GB of user data I need to backup, currently it is under 4GB but users have just been given much larger home directories that I am sure they will fill, as well I am adding a 70GB drive for curriculum resources.
I also have several windows servers with data that needs backing up. At the moment the only ones being succesfully backed up are the Windows boxes using the built in software, these are gpoing to tape (DDS), but this is obvioulsy nowhere near enough. The total of data on the Windows systems may get up to only around 10 -20 GB. My hope is to have a backup server that is doing all the work for all the systems. I can do this under Windows with some expensive software and hardware utilising SAMBA to get the Linux based data (could work the other way as well). We are a school, so have a relatively large window of opportunity for backups to take place overnight. We do have internet access to the AUC system but most of this dies around mid-night and that is all web based access. Does there exist a sutiable robust Linux system? I would imagine that most of the bcakups would go to another HDD on another machine, and then to tape from there. We have a 128K ISDN line which could also be utilised if needed, but that would be last resort stuff. I am still relatively uninformed as to these larger backup systems processes and problesm so would appreciate advice from anyone doing something in a similar sized and configured system _________________________________________ Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramata ICQ#: 137562751 _________________________________________ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
