[CentOS] opensource backup software suggestions please
Chris Mauritz
chrism at imntv.com
Fri Jun 3 15:01:51 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:15, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
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>>What are the users here opinions on enteriprise grade opensource software
>>for doing backups, as an alternative to bakbone or veritas.
>>
>>We just have basic requirements, i.e backing up nfs servers.
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>>
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>If an online disk-based solution will work, with the ability to
>to manually archive a copy to tape, look at backuppc:
>http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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I've found that backing up to another disk to be both faster and more
practical. We've got a number of multi-terabyte RAID arrays to store
uncompressed video. Backing all that data up to tape just isn't a
tenable solution. So we've bitten the bullet and built an extra larger
multi-terabyte array to do online backups. Periodically we do snapshots
of the data on that backup array (like you do on a netapp filer). That
system works well for us. It wouldn't cover us if the building burned
down so the next step is an offsite mirrored array.
Cheers,
C
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