[CentOS] Backup Redux
Craig White
craig.white at ttiltd.com
Thu Dec 8 15:50:07 UTC 2011
On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun
>> StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of
>> RHEL and CentOS. The software we are using is EMC
>>
>> NetWorker Management Console version 3.5.1.Build.269
>> based on NetWorker version 7.5.1.Build.269
>>
>> The pickle we are in right now is that this software is Java based, and
>> stops working at a very specific release of JRE (1.6.26 or something like
>> that).
>
> That sounds like something that can/should be fixed.
>
>>
>> I am familiar with BackupPC and will look at the other recommendations
>> above. I think that Bacula and Amanda are sort of the drop-in replacements
>> for what we have now so I'll look at them most closely. But if I do have
>> to carry forward with our own backups I'd ideally like to get out of the
>> tape game - never liked tapes.
>
> If you want mostly-online backups with perhaps an occasional tar
> archive, it will be hard to beat backuppc because of it's storage
> pooling and ability to run over rsync or smb with no remote agents.
> For all-tape, I'd probably go with amanda because of its ability
> juggle the full/incremental mix automatically to fit the available
> tape size. I haven't used bacula but it looks like it might be good
> if you want a mix of online and tape storage and can deal with the
> agent installs.
----
also - Bacula now has 'Enterprise' version with SLA and yes, Bacula can not only do tape and/or disk but can also migrate backup jobs (ie, disk to tape)
http://www.baculasystems.com/
Craig
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