Check out Bacula.org. Very good system, we use it with about 40 hosts and do disk-to-disk to our iscsi sata array. I also has windows clients that support VSS. Matt Shields Cyberbite Network - www.cyberbite.com On 12/4/06, Administrator <administrator at insurancejournal.com> wrote: > Hello, > i wrote in a week ago and was overwhelmed by the response, but maybe i > need to be more specific. > > We need to get a rock solid backup system in place, basically a > self-running system that would be set up once and then periodically > checked on. > > We have 2 Windows machines (NT4, 2003 Server) and 3 Linux Machines > (Centos 4.4, Centos 4.3 and Red Hat 3). > > Two machines are hosted locally (Centos 4.4 & NT4). > > We have a Dell Server that just needs new hard drives and that could be > setup to be a backup server, but we want to be sure that we have > off-site backups of the local machines (so we could ship the machine to > a hosting facility once it is set up). > > We would like to have the ability to have a rolling archive of about 30 > days. > > Since we are a publishing company, our archives are important but not > critical to our daily operations and they don't change. The current > projects are changed daily and need to be archived daily. > > We are open to the options that were suggested a week ago, but we are > thinking that we need someone to implement it. This is very important > and not something that should be left to someone who is 'learning as he > goes'. > > We need a clear and solid plan along with someone who could execute it. > > Please let me know of any people who are in/around San Diego, California > and could help us- or someone who could accomplish the task flawlessly > with a remote connection. > > Many thanks, > Noah > > -- > Noah Spahn > Tech Manager/Systems Administrator > Wells Publishing Inc > (619)584-1100 ext.122 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >