[ale] Training in Opensource Backups?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 13:47:29 EDT 2016


Transferring my knowledge over from bacula to bareos. Bacula forked. More
later.

On Aug 22, 2016 1:39 PM, "Preston" <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did anything ever materialize about this? If not, here's a bump to let
> y'all know I would still be interested in attending.
>
> Preston
>
> On 1/21/2016 9:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > That could work. Can be done with a beefy laptop with multiple VMs and
> > using hard drive backups instead of tape.
> >
> > 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 Trying to obtain an outdated LTO3 rig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.
> >
> > Or could use 2 towers and library for semi hands on setups.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2016 9:52 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> > <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hey Jim,
> >
> >     Would a Saturday morning 4 hr session be enough for backula
> >     training?  I'd be
> >     very interested in something like this, since I've never gotten it
> >     working.
> >     We'd want some minimum committed people before bothering.
> >
> >     I can offer 2+ hr rdiff-backup hands-on training. Just need a place
> >     to do it
> >     where folks can either do it on their own local systems or connect
> >     to one of
> >     their remote systems and do it there. Really best if 2 systems
> >     connected by ssh
> >     already up and working so the rdiff-backup can use a "pull" backup
> >     technique.
> >     This is usually more secure than a "push" method.  I can add
> >     mysql/mariaDB/postgresql backups to this for non-huge DBs too. I'd
> >     do this if at
> >     least 5 people with the required prerequisite skills committed - 10
> >     is probably
> >     too many for something like this.
> >
> <snipped>
>
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