I have some new machines for which I need to set up backups. I'm aware of various programs (e.g. dump, tar, rsync, cpio, dar, taper, mondo) and have limited experience of using some older ones for backups but don't know anything about the newer ones or what suits my circumstances. I have a main fileserver that has two SATA RAID arrays of 1.5 TB each. The first plan that occurred to me is to use one as the main public storage, under LVM, and the other as back up. I also need to back up some other machines with smaller disks, so I'd need either to compress the backup or to exclude from the backup data that can be regenerated, or both. We have a DVD writer that can make extra backups of critical stuff and I also have access to a networked tape archive but its too small to be practical for the main backup, so again we can make extra copies of critical stuff. One particular concern I have is how to protect against the effects of a system failure during the backup. A good feature is that the system does not have to be continuously available. 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. Thanks, Dave
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:47:44AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
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.
Perhaps you can use hdup? http://miek.nl/projects/hdup It makes incremental monthly, weekly and daily backups. It's available in the apt repository: apt install hdup -- Richard
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.
Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:16 PM, Richard Bos wrote:
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.
Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications
-- 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
Has anyone mentioned mondorescue.org to you yet? B-) On Thursday 28 April 2005 03:50 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:16 PM, Richard Bos wrote:
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.
Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications
-- 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
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:55 PM, Brad Bourn wrote:
Has anyone mentioned mondorescue.org to you yet?
B-)
On Thursday 28 April 2005 03:50 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:16 PM, Richard Bos wrote: 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.
Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications
-- 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
It seems like I have, but it's on the list at this wiki... site, and I will go back through all of them again. So I'll take another look at it if I haven't looked at it before. Thanks, Greg Wallace
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:04:42 -0800, you wrote:
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:55 PM, Brad Bourn wrote:
Has anyone mentioned mondorescue.org to you yet?
B-)
On Thursday 28 April 2005 03:50 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @1:16 PM, Richard Bos wrote: 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.
Found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/List_of_backup_applications
-- 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
It seems like I have, but it's on the list at this wiki... site, and I will go back through all of them again. So I'll take another look at it if I haven't looked at it before.
Just be sure to test whatever you pick, both backup and restore, _before_ it's a disaster. A backup that you can't restore is trash. I once had a client with a commercial windows backup app (Stomp Backup MyPC) create backups that it couldn't restore. Stomp tech support told me that it was a known problem, and there was no fix... Always test the backup before you need it! Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.
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