Backup solutions

[Steve Bertrand]

> >	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?

No bacula, but this is what I use from time to time to take live copies
of a filesystem:

# tar -cvzf - / | ssh steve at server.domain.com 'cat > fsbak.tar.gz'

Note that you will have to implement SSH keyed authentication to
automate it all-around.

Also note that the above will create a tarball on the remote server that
contains the ENTIRE directory structure. Substitute '/' for '/usr' or
whatever structure you want backed up.

This procedure can also be used to untar the tarball onto a new disk,
and boot right from it. (Although changes have to be made, and it's not
bulletproof).

A Perl or shell script can easily automate the naming of the backup file
on the remote system, and even recycle ones that are N days old.

Regards,

Steve

> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >-Mike
> >
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