Augusto:
We've written a couple of scripts to manage backups on both Windows and
Linux machines. They essentially do the following:
1) start (unattended) at a particular time each day (use crontab or
Scheduled Tasks).
2) manage the local dbms backup - when we were on D3 we did the D3 backup
to a local file then these backup scripts picked them up in tar or
ntbackup. However, now that we're on UniData there is no UniData backup so
we just use tar and ntbackup.
3) run the machine backup (via tar or ntbackup) to a local file.
4) compress the backup file (to make it more manageable).
6) copy the machine backup file to an archive directory on the local
machine.
6) ftp the backup file to another "backup" machine on the local network.
7) email the entire progress of this process to the system administrator.
On a weekly basis, we use a slight variation of the scripts on a remote
machine elsewhere in the country. This script gets the latest backup file
from the backup server and sftps it to the remote machine. Thus we get
daily backups on each machine which are also stored on a shared drive
elsewhere on the network. In addition, each week our latest backups are
copied to a remote location.
We're still looking for more of a 24/7 solution without complicating our
lives and requiring a "full-time" administrator to make sure it all works.
We've been looking at MozyPro and Acronis but haven't completely understood
all of the variations and permutations of configurations to determine if
these solutions will, in fact, work.
Always happy to share what we have in this area. You may want to look at
http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AutomateNTBackup for a general idea,
but I could publish a few more specific scripts.
HTH,
Bill
Augusto Alonso wrote on 11/27/2008 2:16 AM:
Hi All.
I have a variety of Universe servers running in a variety of Unix and
windows flavours.
I'm facing the problem to manage unattended daily scheduled backups of it.
I need to keep the copy, out of the Universe server.
It is impossible to design a universal sollution, but all my servers have
a common utility: uvbackup.
My question is, does anybody knows the way to run uvbackup dumping to a
"remote" device?
So that, I could hold the uvbackup image on a small Linux box or
eventually send it to some internet-backup-server.
TIA
-Augusto Alonso
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