Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:15, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
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.
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/
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