Hi,
On Monday, March 12, 2012 you wrote:
What do you guys recommend for backing up a small CentOS server in a business environment. It will have (3) 300gb drives in a raid 5 array but I don't anticipate more than about 25gb of data that needs to be backed up each night.
I stumbled on http://storebackup.org/ the other day. It looks pretty good for disc-disc backup.
I am using storeBackup for three years now and LOVE it. I am backing up three servers to two independent backup servers and get a new backup every four hours. storeBackup uses hard links on the target disk, so you do not need much physical space on the backup servers. A backup of a 250GB server takes less than 15 minutes.
This is certainly no solution if you need an insurance against hardware failures, but it is a perfect backup to store densely older versions of the server content.
Having the servers and the backup servers on RAID6 and having storeBackup makes me sleep well.
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