[ale] Looking for backup solution.

[H. Bieber]

I guess I am weighing in alittle late on this post, but...

At Emory I built a "server" (using 3ware IDE RAID card and 4 250gb drives in RAID 5) and loaded the rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) project. Works great and fast, it is setup to take a snapshot of the mail server data directory every 4 hours, and keep 7 days, 4 weeks and 1 month of backups. I didn't get to test it on Windows, but there is an rsync client for Windows. The second snapshot box that was being worked on would backup, the 2 Linux servers, and 2 Netware servers (since Netware servers can run rsync, v6.0 and newer contains rsync by default). So this may be something to look into.

Harold



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:00:25 -0400
Subject: Re: [ale] Looking for backup solution.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I started to implement an rvm solution 
but the documentation left me with a lot of questions.  I decided to go 
back to bacula to see if I could figure it out one more time.  What 
finally worked was running bacula-sd as root.  For some strange reason 
running as bacula/tape quit working even though the disk volume that I 
was writing to was owned by bacula/tape.  I even set the directory 
permissions to 777 but no way would the sd write to it.  I suspect I 
shouldn't be running sd as root, but it works and I'm happy with it.

I thought I'd document the problem so someone else might find the 
solution in the future.

Thanks again,
Jim.

Jim wrote:
> I tried bacula because it had everything I needed, however I couldn't 
> get it to work the first time and then when I tried later it seemed to 
> work after screwing with it too long.  Now all of a sudden it started 
> failing. 
>
> So I'm going to trash it and try something else. 
>
> What I liked about bacula were the following features.
>
> * it does either full backups or incremental ones.
> * it allows me to include/exclude directories/files.
> * it runs from a single machine and dumps files from multiple systems, 
> including Windows
>
> Rsync does the second, but unless you write some sort of script to 
> schedule the target in different places, it  won't solve the first and 
> as far as I know it doesn't do the third for windows.  I know you can 
> run rsync on windows, but you can't schedule it from Linux unless you 
> install some sort of ssh server on the windows box.  I'd rather have a 
> complete package that runs everwhere if possible.
>
> I'm dumping to a dedicated 200 Gb drive on one of my Linux boxes.  I 
> dont have a tape drive.
>  
> Dump is pretty quick, but it doesn't let me exclude the crap I really 
> don't want to be bothered with among other limitations.
>
> So does anyone know of any reasonable solutions? Something that'll last 
> more than a couple of months?  (bacula)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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