<p dir="ltr">That could work. Can be done with a beefy laptop with multiple VMs and using hard drive backups instead of tape.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I do have some older tape libraries that could be pressed into service. SCSI cards are scarce in my shop. Trying to obtain an outdated LTO3 rig now.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Or could use 2 towers and library for semi hands on setups. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Late March at the earliest. Will need to filter attendees for at least junior admin skills. Not a topic for beginners without vim basics and filesystems and some regex fu. Need to limit to under 10. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 21, 2016 9:52 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:djpfulio@jdpfu.com">djpfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Jim,<br>
<br>
Would a Saturday morning 4 hr session be enough for backula training? I'd be<br>
very interested in something like this, since I've never gotten it working.<br>
We'd want some minimum committed people before bothering.<br>
<br>
I can offer 2+ hr rdiff-backup hands-on training. Just need a place to do it<br>
where folks can either do it on their own local systems or connect to one of<br>
their remote systems and do it there. Really best if 2 systems connected by ssh<br>
already up and working so the rdiff-backup can use a "pull" backup technique.<br>
This is usually more secure than a "push" method. I can add<br>
mysql/mariaDB/postgresql backups to this for non-huge DBs too. I'd do this if at<br>
least 5 people with the required prerequisite skills committed - 10 is probably<br>
too many for something like this.<br>
<br>
The hard part is clearly specifying the prerequisite skills required. Tried to<br>
do a "Setup KVM 101" session at ALE-NW 2 yrs ago and over half the attendees<br>
didn't understand sudo vi or basic networking things (like editing the<br>
"interfaces" file to add bridge settings - I provided the bridge settings<br>
needed. Not their fault because I didn't consider those to be prerequisites.<br>
I'd want to do better going forward.<br>
<br>
Would need a place to do this. Seems the KSU group might be starting up again,<br>
so we might have a place.<br>
<br>
Would training like this be something the group as a whole liked?<br>
<br>
-jd<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 01/21/2016 09:28 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Bacula is quite amazing. It's the only backup solution I use.<br>
><br>
> It's tedious to setup and the documentation is so detailed it can be<br>
> overwhelming.<br>
><br>
> Currently I use it with some LTO6 tape libraries. One has a single drive<br>
> and the other has dual.<br>
><br>
> I have small pool used for worm tapes for off site backup/archive. Manual<br>
> insertion plus a library scan, incremental backup of specific area to worm<br>
> pool will pull the worm tape. Release when done, export and store elsewhere.<br>
><br>
> Take the time to master the bacula bare-iron recovery of itself. Had to use<br>
> it once and it totally saved my bacon. Raid controller freaked and wrote<br>
> crap to drive array until the system crashed. Replaced controller (and<br>
> drives) and pulled out the panic disk. Booted it, ran the OS restore from<br>
> tape, rebooted, ran second restore for other stuff (very busy machine with<br>
> multiple partitions and functions -backups and samba), rebooted, back to<br>
> other things.<br>
><br>
> The bacula-web gives pretty pictures for PHB consumption.<br>
><br>
> The windows client works well. Not tried some of the other stuff.<br>
> On Jan 21, 2016 9:10 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Anyone using one of these like Bacula or Amanda that would care to comment<br>
>> on the following?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> From what I saw yesterday it appears Bacula supports most of the things we<br>
>> do now with Netbackup such as Windows MSSQL, Hyper-V, Oracle RMAN, UNIX,<br>
>> Linux and Windows clients. It also has plugins for Postgres and MySQL I<br>
>> think (NetBackup doesn’t have direct plugins for these like it does RMAN<br>
>> and MSSQL).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Can anyone comment on how well any of that works for them?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> What is overall licensing costing you for the various plugins and for<br>
>> using shared tape library and deduplication appliances?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> How you do vaulting (i.e. duplicating images to tape to be sent off site)?<br>
>> I know about offsite replication for deduplication units but we aren’t<br>
>> doing that so please don’t suggest it.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Anything else you’d like to share on use of OpenSource backup products.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Note:<br>
>><br>
>> We will NOT be doing a setup wherein we just do tar or rsync or some other<br>
>> home brewed solution. I’m asking about a full enterprise solutions for<br>
>> hundreds of physical servers and/or virtual guests.<br>
>><br>
<br>
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