[ale] Anyone here who is good with kernel programming?

[Jim Kinney]

Maybe it's just me but using existing well understood tools for each part of
a process chain seems far less kludgy to me.
So step one generates the backed up data on maneagable chunks for the
proposed output process. Step two prepares that set for storage. Step writes
to media.

I HIGHLY recommend looking at a complete backup solution like bacula. The
backup is only 1% of the problem. The restore is the only part that matters.

Using power controls on a series of raid10 drives as primary backup storage
can greatly extend the drive life. Then using DVD-RW as off-site archival
rotation and bare metal recovery of the backup server makes sense to me.

Did I mention bacula has the best documentation of any open source project I
have ever seen? And it can send notification emails of status and now has a
web gui dashboard for non tech management use.

On Feb 13, 2010 12:52 AM, "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

On 02/12/2010 11:58 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> I don't object to this feature on any principle. Quite ...
Actually, my client would prefer to just be told how to run the backup
and have it work every time.

I prefer not to support kludgey things if I can help it.  Hence why I am
trying to figure out how to do this in some neat and easily-supportable
fashion.  I don't want to build anything that would make me think of
Rube Goldberg---at least, not for a long term solution.  :-P

If I have to make something kludgey that I have to support for a little
while, I will do that.  However, I would like to replace it later with
something more proper.  I would be implementing it because I want to,
not necessarily because the client wants it.  It would ultimately be to
reduce the crud that I have running on the client's system and to
scratch an itch that I haven't reached in a few years.


--- Mike

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