Well the idea is if I can get my CentOS box to communicate with my Windows 2003 network I was going to do a backup and put the backup file on a windows box where I would have Backup Exec put it on Tape. One step at a time though. I haven't tackled trying to get the CentOS and Windows to talk yet. I have lots of reading to do on that subject yet. Thanks for the list of backup software.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:24 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:21:04AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:

Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don't want to spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier the software the better. Thanks.

What, and how much, are you trying to back up? What storage device will you be backing up to (tape, dvd, disk)?

There are several projects out there: amanda (my personal favorite), bacula, backuppc, and I'm sure a few others. More details on your expected usage can help folks point you in the better direction.

Matt

Thanks guys I will look into using Veritas as soon as I figure out how to get Windows and Linux to talk.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Chris Peikert wrote:

Well the idea is if I can get my CentOS box to communicate with my Windows 2003 network I was going to do a backup and put the backup file on a

windows

box where I would have Backup Exec put it on Tape. One step at a time though. I haven't tackled trying to get the CentOS and Windows to talk

yet.

I have lots of reading to do on that subject yet. Thanks for the list of backup software.

I have not looked into this for a few years, but at the time, Veritas provided a free license for you to download/use a copy of their Unix backup agent to run on Linux. Go to their support site. If you can find a Linux agent, go ahead and use that. If not, I believe I used their generic Unix agent. This will allow you to backup your Linux server to a Backup Exec server directly.

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On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:57 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:16, Johnny Hughes wrote:

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I just built a package called backuppc for the testing CentOS repo. It requires a dedicated backup server that you run it on, and it can backup Linux/Unix/Mac machines via rsync or tar and Windows machines via samba.

Actually a fast desktop machine with a big disk drive works pretty well. If the targets you are backing up are left on all the time backuppc will do all its work at night so you can use the machine for other things in the daytime.

Right,

I didn't explain myself very well :)

What I meant was that backuppc requires that you run both it's daemon and the httpd (apache) daemon as the backuppc user ... this can cause issues with other web applications, so you should pick a machine that doesn't run other web server applications or hosts if possible.

Any machine that can run CentOS 4 and has 256mb RAM and lots of storage space can be the backup machine ... though there are calculations and those will run much faster with more horsepower. Also lots of stuff can be cached, so the more memory the better too.

You could run 2 separate instances of httpd (apache) on different ports (a normal one and a backuppc one) which would allow you to run normal websites and the backuppc server on a web server ... so anything is possible.