RE: [SLE] backup software?

me＠prestoncrawford.com

28 Apr 2005 28 Apr '05

21:57

It's not listed there, but I've had good luck with arkeia. Otherwise I just use growisofs and write a script to select the files to backup. Preston ---------------------------------------- From: "Greg Wallace" Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:52 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] backup software? On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:16 PM, Richard Bos wrote:

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Op donderdag 28 april 2005 12:47, schreef Dave Howorth:

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Any thoughts on a good choice of software and strategy for this situation, or pointers to tutorials that explain the options? I haven't found much in the SuSE documentation.

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Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications

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-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

I'm also looking at backup software. This looks like a nice place to start. Thanks, Greg Wallace -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

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Greg Wallace

29 Apr 29 Apr

01:40

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On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:58 PM, Preston Crawford wrote:

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Greg Wallace wrote:

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Op donderdag 28 april 2005 12:47, schreef Dave Howorth: Any thoughts on a good choice of software and strategy for this situation, or pointers to tutorials that explain the options? I haven't found much in the SuSE documentation.

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Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications

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-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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I'm also looking at backup software. This looks like a nice place to start.

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Thanks, Greg Wallace

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It's not listed there, but I've had good luck with arkeia. Otherwise I just use growisofs and write a script to select the files to backup.

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Preston

I've saved off this email. I'll take a look at arkeia. Not sure about the scripting. I've tweaked some and more or less understand the lingo, but I'm not very comfortable with it yet (plus it's been a while since I've done it). Thanks, Greg Wallace

Dave Howorth

09:37

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me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:

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It's not listed there, but I've had good luck with arkeia. Otherwise I just use growisofs and write a script to select the files to backup.

Preston

I happened to notice in Karsten Self's Linux Backups mini-FAQ http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html that there was mention of a large security hole in arkeia. Don't know anything about it, true or not, out of date or not. But it might be worth checking :) Cheers, Dave BTW. Thanks to all for your suggestions. I've got some reading to do!

John Scott

12:38

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On 4/29/05, Dave Howorth wrote:

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me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:

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It's not listed there, but I've had good luck with arkeia. Otherwise I just use growisofs and write a script to select the files to backup.

Preston

I happened to notice in Karsten Self's Linux Backups mini-FAQ http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html that there was mention of a large security hole in arkeia. Don't know anything about it, true or not, out of date or not. But it might be worth checking :)

Cheers, Dave

BTW. Thanks to all for your suggestions. I've got some reading to do!

Yeah. The hole's there. It's been talked to death on the arkeia list. Arkeia has a doc that deals with this issue and I think it's been addressed in the 5.3.x versions. I haven't upgraded my arkeia to 5.3 yet so can't say for sure, but the upgrade is in line. As for backups/restores, the only problem I've run into with arkeia is trying to do a bare metal restore on my AMD64 boxes. The disaster recovery disk doesn't work (after spending a few weeks trooubleshooting with arkeia support) on this processor line. Arkeia support couldn't get it to work either. John

JB

18:21

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On Friday 29 April 2005 07:38, John Scott wrote:

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On 4/29/05, Dave Howorth wrote:

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me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:

<snip> Sorry if it's already been brought up, I haven't paid attention to this thread til just now. Has anyone mentioned Mondo or Mindi? http://mondorescue.org/

Greg Wallace

20:51

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On Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 10:22 AM, yonaton wrote:

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On Friday 29 April 2005 07:38, John Scott wrote:

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On 4/29/05, Dave Howorth wrote:

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me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:

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Sorry if it's already been brought up, I haven't paid attention to this thread til just now. Has anyone mentioned Mondo or Mindi?

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http://mondorescue.org/

Mondo is on the linuxquestions site. Mindi is not. I'll make note of that. Greg Wallace

Randall R Schulz

30 Apr 30 Apr

02:37

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JB, On Friday 29 April 2005 11:21, JB wrote:

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Sorry if it's already been brought up, I haven't paid attention to this thread til just now. Has anyone mentioned Mondo or Mindi?

As the authors and experienced users of Mondo Rescue often point out, it is a disaster recovery system, not a backup and restore system.

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http://mondorescue.org/

Randall Schulz

Greg Wallace

05:05

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On Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 6:38 PM, Randall Schultz wrote:

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JB,

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On Friday 29 April 2005 11:21, JB wrote:

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Sorry if it's already been brought up, I haven't paid attention to this thread til just now. Has anyone mentioned Mondo or Mindi?

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As the authors and experienced users of Mondo Rescue often point out, it is a disaster recovery system, not a backup and restore system.

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http://mondorescue.org/

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Randall Schulz

I'm really mainly interested in disaster recovery. Backup/Restore would be nice, but certainly not required. I guess I posted this under the wrong Subject! Greg Wallace

Ken Schneider

11:15

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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 21:05 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:

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On Friday, April 29, 2005 @ 6:38 PM, Randall Schultz wrote:

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JB,

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Randall Schulz

I'm really mainly interested in disaster recovery. Backup/Restore would be nice, but certainly not required. I guess I posted this under the wrong Subject!

Greg Wallace

Look into BackupEdge. One of their traits is disaster recovery. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

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