Backup solutions

[Jeff at NorrisTechs]

I use a method you describe.  tar gz all  my files and directories then 
push them to a removable hard drive (jaz, zip, etc).  I use a simple 
shell script to do all this for me and I rotate the media each day, so I 
have at least 3 copies of everything.  This process would take much hard 
drive space to accomplish as you have the original file, then the tar.gz 
version of the same files.

Cheers

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mike at lanline.com wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>	I'm looking into several backup options for my site.  We have a
>mixed (BSDI/FreeBSD/Linux) environment.  We recently got a 2TB server and
>I was wondering what the general consensus was on backups.  I was either
>considering writing some custom scripts to just tar, zip, and dump data
>to the remote file system or possibly using bacula.  Amanda is out,
>because I'm not really interested in pushing the stuff to tape.
>	So, I'm pretty much down to bacula and the standard unix tools.
>Bacula looks cool, but it seems like it maybe unnecessarily complicated
>and bulky (btw, i also do have a few w2k servers that can be backed using
>bacula's client :( ).  Anyone with a similar situation or experience with
>bacula?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>-Mike
>
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