Troy Engel wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
A really nice tool for nightly backups with a history kept on-line is backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. It probably
I've played with this a little, and my comment in the negative is that it's a do-or-die on a whole system. You don't get fine grained control of exactly what you want (for instance, I may only want /etc/ and /var/named/ of the DNS/DHCP server, D:\My Documents\ of a shared Windows PC, etc) and pretty much have to suck the whole thing up.
This really isn't a *snapshot* feature, per se - it's a backup. A snapshot (should be|is) a lot more space conservative and lean running that won't affect operation of the NAS in realtime. The hardcore snapshot feature of NetApp/SnapServer really is great, it's hard to beat. I may be a linux nut, but sometimes a commercial solution is the right answer for a specific situation.
openfiler 1.x supports snapshots along with a multitude of options on handling them in various ways.