[ale] Training in Opensource Backups?

[Preston]

*cough* *cough*

I'm still interested in this and will (most likely) be bringing another
along with me should this materialize.

Preston

On 8/22/2016 12:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 Trying to obtain an outdated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>
>     > <mailto: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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> 

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