Depends on what media you want to backup onto.. For tape backup I'd recomend Arkeia Network Backup Lite edition. It's free for single server, installs via rpms and is very easy to setup & use if you've ever had experience with tape backups before. It also lets you setup scheduled jobs. SteveC
Gavin <gavinpillay@gmail.com> 07/16/05 2:13 pm >>> Hi All,
What's the best backup software to use with Suse. Is the Backup and Restore utility included in YaST all I need ? Regards, -- SynapseR -- 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
Stephen Carter wrote:
Depends on what media you want to backup onto.. For tape backup I'd recomend Arkeia Network Backup Lite edition.
Amanda is my favourite - http://www.amanda.org/ - also works with changers, stackers and robots. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!
Gavin <gavinpillay@gmail.com> 07/16/05 2:13 pm >>>
Hi All,
What's the best backup software to use with Suse.
That'll be a matter of choice, but dar is flexible and easy to use. there is a KDE front end (kdar) to assist with creating the initial setting which can either run the backup or output a script so you can schedule it.
Is the Backup and Restore utility included in YaST all I need ?
No, that's limited and only deals with recording the system setup (I believe) Dylan
Regards,
-- SynapseR
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Stephen Carter wrote:
Depends on what media you want to backup onto..
For tape backup I'd recomend Arkeia Network Backup Lite edition. It's free for single server, installs via rpms and is very easy to setup & use if you've ever had experience with tape backups before. It also lets you setup scheduled jobs.
SteveC
Gavin <gavinpillay@gmail.com> 07/16/05 2:13 pm >>>
Hi All,
What's the best backup software to use with Suse. Is the Backup and Restore utility included in YaST all I need ?
Regards,
I plan to use DVD media. Does it support that ? -- SynapseR -- Suse9.3eR
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 10:59, Gavin wrote: <SNIP>
I plan to use DVD media. Does it support that ?
Searching my folders I come up with DAR and KDAR. There is also one called Ghost for linux and another called Backup and REstore aka BRU. Still deciding. For now I do incremental. Opinions as to which is best ill leave to my betters. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
Gavin <gavinpillay@gmail.com> 07/16/05 2:13 pm >>>
Hi All,
What's the best backup software to use with Suse. Is the Backup and Restore utility included in YaST all I need ?
Regards,
-- SynapseR
For Backups to disk I don't think you can get any better than storebackup. You define what backups you want to have available (I keep 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, and 3 monthly backups.) Storebackup does the rest! When I need something from a backup: - I open konqueror, - go to the backup diriectory, - pick the date of the backup I'm interested in - Navigate to the file I'm interested in... - and open it, copy it, or what ever. You would think that keeping that many backups would take up a lot of space, but storebackup compresses all the files (individually with gzip), and uses hardlinks so that there is only one copy of version of each file on the disks. I honestly can't think of a single function I'd add or could make better. Jerry
Op zondag 17 juli 2005 09:01, schreef Jerry Westrick:
For Backups to disk I don't think you can get any better than storebackup.
You define what backups you want to have available (I keep 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, and 3 monthly backups.) Storebackup does the rest!
Is it this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/storebackup ? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:22, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zondag 17 juli 2005 09:01, schreef Jerry Westrick:
For Backups to disk I don't think you can get any better than storebackup.
You define what backups you want to have available (I keep 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, and 3 monthly backups.) Storebackup does the rest!
Is it this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/storebackup ?
yes, but I use the version on the SuSE 9.3 DVD.... Yast is your friend... SuSE setup puts a "storebackup" script in /etc/cron.daily/ directory to do the daily backups. The script executes storebackup for all /etc/storebackup.d/*.config files. Need to modify the /etc/storebackup.d/storebackup.config example file... Jerry
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:49 am, Stephen Carter wrote:
Depends on what media you want to backup onto..
For tape backup I'd recomend Arkeia Network Backup Lite edition. It's free for single server, installs via rpms and is very easy to setup & use if you've ever had experience with tape backups before. It also lets you setup scheduled jobs.
SteveC
For hard drive backups, I use the following script. I get 3 days of uncompressed backups available to administrators via Samba. Hard links (cp -al) are used to save space. Archives are stored on a USB drive that gets swapped every Tuesday. Rsync is used to get data to the sync folder from both the local and remote machines. (Lines may have wrapped) #!/bin/sh # full and incr backup script # created 27 Sep 99 # Based on a script by Daniel O'Callaghan <danny@freebsd.org> # I can't remember where I got the hard link rotation part of this # but his name should be up here too. # Modified by Louis Richards - 11 Feb 05 #Change the variables below to fit your computer/backup TAR=/bin/tar # Name and locaction of tar MOUNT=/bin/mount # Name and locaction of mount UMOUNT=/bin/umount # Name and locaction of umount BASEDIR=/mnt/backups # The base directory NEEDMOUNT=1 # Wether or not the archive dir needs to be mounted ARCHIVEDEV=/dev/sdc1 # The device used for archives (if above is 1) ARCHIVEDIR=$BASEDIR/archive # where to store the long term archive files #You should not have to change anything below here PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin SERVERDIR=$BASEDIR/sync # the directory servers are synced to # (each server should have it's own # directory set up under this in rsync) SHAREDIR=$BASEDIR/share # where to store the shared backup files TIMEFILE=$BASEDIR/last_full # where to store time of full backup DOW=`date +%a` # Day of the week e.g. Mon DOM=`date +%d` # Date of the Month e.g. 27 DM=`date +%d%b` # Date and Month e.g. 27Sep # On the 1st of the month a permanet full backup is made # Every Sunday a full backup is made - overwriting last Sundays backup # The rest of the time an incremental backup is made. Each incremental # backup overwrites last weeks incremental backup of the same name. # # if NEWER = "", then tar backs up all files in the SERVERS # otherwise it backs up files newer than the NEWER date. NEWER # gets it date from the file written every Sunday. if [ $DOW = "Wed" ]; then # weekly full backup NEWER="" NOW=`date +%d-%b` echo $NOW > $TIMEFILE #update full backup date else #make incremental backup - overwrite last weeks NEWER="--newer `cat $TIMEFILE`" #get date of last full backup fi display_time=`date` echo "----------------------------------------------" > $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log echo $display_time Starting Nightly Backups >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log echo "----------------------------------------------" >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log if [ $NEEDMOUNT ]; then # We need to mount the archive device $UMOUNT $ARCHIVEDEV echo "Mounting Archive Drive" >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log $MOUNT $ARCHIVEDIR fi # For every server in SERVERDIR ... for server in `find $SERVERDIR -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf "%f\n"`; do echo $server >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log display_time=`date` echo - $display_time Rotating shared files >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log rm -rf $SHAREDIR/$server.3dy mv $SHAREDIR/$server.2dy $SHAREDIR/$server.3dy mv $SHAREDIR/$server.1dy $SHAREDIR/$server.2dy cp -al $SERVERDIR/$server $SHAREDIR/$server.1dy # Backup each subdirectory of the current directory in SERVERDIR display_time=`date` echo - $display_time Creating archive files >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log for directory in `find $SERVERDIR/$server -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf "%f\n" | sed s/" "/"###"/g`; do directory=`echo $directory | sed s/"###"/" "/g` echo - $directory >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log if [ $DOM = "01" ]; then # monthly full backup display_time=`date` echo - - $display_time Creating monthly archive >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log $TAR -z -c -f "$ARCHIVEDIR/$server-$directory-$DM.tgz" "$SERVERDIR/$server/$directory" fi display_time=`date` echo - - $display_time Creating nightly archive >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log $TAR $NEWER -z -c -f "$ARCHIVEDIR/$server-$directory-$DOW.tgz" "$SERVERDIR/$server/$directory" done done if [ $NEEDMOUNT ]; then # We need to un-mount the archive device echo "Unmounting Archive Drive" >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log $UMOUNT $ARCHIVEDIR fi display_time=`date` echo "----------------------------------------------" >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log echo $display_time Completed Nightly Backups >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log echo "----------------------------------------------" >> $SHAREDIR/$DOW.log echo echo -- Louis Richards
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Carl William Spitzer IV -
Dylan -
Gavin -
Jerry Westrick -
Louis Richards -
Per Jessen -
Richard Bos -
Stephen Carter