On 9/16/10 6:20 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On

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Of Kevin Thorpe Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:59 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a decent backup system?

I'll definitely look into BackupPC for HDD backups but they're in the same offfice and don't give us the audit monthend tapes we are required to keep

indefinitely.

Given you have enough storage space, it's possible to keep a full backup with BackupPC indefinitely as well, *if* you set up the rentention parameters properly.

I ran amanda and backuppc independently for a long time. Both are pretty much 'full automatic' once you set them up. If your backup window is long enough having both means you still have backups if one or the other has some kind of problem or is being upgraded. But, after years of never restoring from tapes I gave up on them and now have the backuppc archive on a 3-member raid1 mirror and swap one of the drives offsite regularly.

Tapes are kind of an afterthought with backuppc, but if you want to use it by itself you can use its concept of 'archive host' to write a tar copy of the last backup to tape (or compress/split for dvds, etc.). This can be done through the web interface or you could use the command line tool that generates a tar image to script whatever you wanted to write to tape. With the command line tool you can specify the backup you want so you'd be able to generate a 'month-end' tar any time before the run for that day expired.

Also, backuppc can use rsync over ssh for the transport, so once you get the initial copy you might be able to move the server to a remote location.

-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com