Hey folks,
I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS
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). We still have some machines around with that release and it looks like we need to keep at least 1 of them, but this is clearly not a long term viable solution.
In the end I want to get our central IT group to take over our backups if possible (we are a bit of an island outside of central IT), but as I pursue that path I also want to pursue a 2ndary path assuming they will say "no".
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.
Anyway, since the last big backup discussion was over a year ago I figured I'd kick off another one to see if anything new has come up in the mean time.
What are the current recommendations?
cheers, -Alan