On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 10:04, Richard Humphrey wrote: > This isnt directly related to RedHat, but I figured someone could give > me a direction to go in. We are a small company (only 7-8 server) All > RedHat except for 1 Win2k server. We are growwing out of our backup > schemes as 1 of the servers we have can only backup 20GB of data and we > have surpassed that. Our DLT drive on the Windows Server isnt very > reliable (I think it is beyond its life cycle) and unfortunately none of > the other servers are backed up (but really need to be). I am looking at > Tape Loaders that will backup all the servers nightly. It seems that the > prices go from anywhere around $3000 US and up depending on size etc. > Since we are small, we probably do not need a 400GB space, but 120/240 > would probably do well for us. What tape loaders are you using and how > do you like them. I have looked at doing other methods of backing up > (rsync) and we may still pursue that, but we need something that we can > take offsite in case of disaster etc. > Not a hardware solution but you might want to look at amanda. I use an old 15-30 DLT drive I got off ebay about 4 years ago for < $400 US and backup 6 different servers that total about 150 GB. Amanda is really smart in figuring out what partitions to backup at what level and using the various incrementals in combination with level 0 backups to keep all servers backed up and usually never more than 3 tapes to get a full restore.
We us a tape cycle of 18 tapes and thus have 3 weeks of daly backups at any one time for historic purposes. I took me a while to get my head around it but the redhat rpms make is sooooooo much easier than it was when I started with all the various configure options you need to deal with when built from tar ball.. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
