[H-GEN] Backups etc...

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Robert Stuart wrote:

> For people interested in commercial (possibly expensive) solutions to
> backups:
> 
> We have Solaris boxes and Linux boxes on our network (and previously
> Netware 3.x, 4.x).  We use Legato Networker (or "Solstice Backup" ?)
> with a DLT4700 (DLT 20/40GB 7 slot autochanger) which IMHO is an
> excellent product.  
> 
> The idea is that you nominate a backup server (should be a fairly decent
> box), install the server software on it, install client sw on the

Or, you could look at http://www.amanda.org/ for an equivilant public
domain solution.  It to is a distributed solution, with a master tape
server writing incremental/full backups to single/multiple tapes from
multiple machines/drives using dump/tar/cpio/whatever, with the
possibility of an online index of files for each machine and their status. 

As a bonus, you can read the tapes it writes with standard tools[1]
(provided you've printed out the instructions on how to skip over the
Amanda headers and just read the raw data) in the instance that your
machine needs restoring in a hurry (before you install Amanda again).

--==--
Bruce.

[1] dd, cat, restore, tar

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