Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: > >> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. >> >> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and >> duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg passphrase >> in clear text. Since bug 807329 has no answer at all, I am looking to >> another way to do my backups, which could use all the past backups for >> the transition. >> >> What to use ? > I am a great fan of amanda, and have been using it since the late '90's. > Once configured and running, I can forget about it as the job of making a > backup becomes just another entry in a crontab. I get an emailed report, > both from amanda and from my wrappers. amanda does its own housekeeping > and record keeping, and recovery is very fast if using virtual tapes > that are actually directories on another big hard drive. And the drive > is about $90 at the vendors for a 1Tb, which I think is very comparable > to a tape library and 40 or so tapes at something north of $10,000. And > in nearly a decade, 50,000% more dependable than tape. One drive failed > in a decade, and it warned me in plenty of time to go to town and get > another. Zero data loss. > > But you will have to get rid of your do a full on Friday's. You tell > amanda how many days amanda has to do a level0 on everything, and amanda > will fiddle with the schedule until each nights run saves about the same > amount of data. Everything else gets an incremental. So I can do a bare > metal recovery to a new main drive with nothing more than the install > dvd, tar and cp to extract last nights copy of the database and amanda > config that generated that backup, giving amanda the data it needs to do > its work, and have this system restored to its state as of about 2am > this morning, all in about 3 hours + the time to go get a new drive from > Staples. > > Whats not to like? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Can amanda backyup on a ftp server or google drive ? That's what I do now.
