I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how? Please help, i am not good enough on centos. regards, Damas
Greetings,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Damas Ally damastz@gmail.com wrote:
I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how? Please help, i am not good enough on centos. regards, Damas
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stock "amanda" srever and client should be your friend. I have not tried bakuppc thought I have heard good things about it.
HTH
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Ally damastz@gmail.com wrote:
I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how? Please help, i am not good enough on centos.
Backuppc is about as good as it gets for online backups. It is packaged in EPEL but you can find docs and mail list info at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula.
Greetings,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Ally damastz@gmail.com wrote: If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula.
IMHO, after few production installations, amanda also does disk bakckups. and then you can use rdiff,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajsand@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Ally damastz@gmail.com wrote: If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula.
IMHO, after few production installations, amanda also does disk bakckups. and then you can use rdiff,
Backuppc uses compression and pools the storage for all files with duplicate content so you can keep a much longer history online than you would expect, and it presents incremental backups as 'filled' from the backing full so you have a one-step restore from any run.
Le 19/10/2011 17:43, Les Mikesell a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Allydamastz@gmail.com wrote:
I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how? Please help, i am not good enough on centos.
Backuppc is about as good as it gets for online backups. It is packaged in EPEL but you can find docs and mail list info at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula.
And even if dated, this wiki doc is a good help for configuration under CentOS : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
And this one helped me a lot to configure user authentication on Active Directory : http://tastycrepes.blogspot.com/2010/07/active-directory-and-backuppc.html
Hope this helps...
Alain
Thanks for all the options given, i will work on them and give feedback, it will be my honour to have online or automated backup system and active directory as well. Regards, Damas.
On 10/19/11, Alain Péan alain.pean@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote:
Le 19/10/2011 17:43, Les Mikesell a écrit :
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Allydamastz@gmail.com wrote:
I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how? Please help, i am not good enough on centos.
Backuppc is about as good as it gets for online backups. It is packaged in EPEL but you can find docs and mail list info at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula.
And even if dated, this wiki doc is a good help for configuration under CentOS : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC
And this one helped me a lot to configure user authentication on Active Directory : http://tastycrepes.blogspot.com/2010/07/active-directory-and-backuppc.html
Hope this helps...
Alain
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I'd recommend that you look at bacula. I've used many backup systems (both commercial and open source) over the years and bacula is by far the best of them overall, is under active development, robust, scalable, and has optional commercial support if needed.
For CentOS 5.x, there are not-the-most-recent-version RPMs available from the bacula site or you can build from source. As of RHEL6/CentOS6, bacula comes with the base operating system (as usual, also not the most recent version but quite a bit newer than the 5.x RPMs).
The bacula *server(s)* must run on a UNIX machine. Bacula clients are available for many different UNIX variants as well as Mac and Windows.
There is a learning curve for setting it up but if you've ever used any other enterprise-grade backup product it shouldn't be overwhelming.
Devin
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:43 +0300, Damas Ally wrote:
I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible how?
Yes, CentOS will integration with AD. Lots of documentation on that is available.
If you are backing up to disk be sure to take a look at SDFS http://www.opendedup.org/ for your backend 'filessystem'. Block level duplication can be a *HUGE* win.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
If you are backing up to disk be sure to take a look at SDFS http://www.opendedup.org/ for your backend 'filessystem'. Block level duplication can be a *HUGE* win.
Backuppc does file-level dedup - and compression that continues to work with rsync against an uncompressed source.
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