[WBEL-users] OT: Backups

[Daniel T. Gynn]

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It doesn't have a GUI, but I use AMANDA.  One nice thing is you can set
it up to backup to disk, so you can configure it to work with external
hard drives.  I find it easier to setup than writing scripts to tar or
copy files and it is simplier and more reliable than some other backups
out there.  For instance, we used to use TapeWare, which had a decent
GUI for Linux, but found it very unreliable.


On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:44, John Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Tony wrote:
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> > Sorry for being slightly OT, but I was wondering
> > what you all will be using as an enterprise backup
> > solution with WB?
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> That IS a big question these days, considering the size of typical hard=20
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> sure no user data lives on workstations.
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> Currently I'm backing up the server by the simple expedient of tar onto a=
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> External firewire enclosures with 120GB IDE drives.  Backup is as simple=20
> as cp (or drag and drop if that is your thing) and you can still have=20
> rotating backups, off-site copies and all of the things that make for a=20
> well designed backup scheme.
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