[WBEL-users] OT: Backups

[joswel@joshwelch.com]

Quoting John Morris <jmorris@beau.org>:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Tony wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for being slightly OT, but I was wondering
> > what you all will be using as an enterprise backup
> > solution with WB?
> 
> That IS a big question these days, considering the size of typical hard 
> drives compared to tapes.  Don't know what others are doing but I'm making 
> sure no user data lives on workstations.
> 
> Currently I'm backing up the server by the simple expedient of tar onto a 
> DDS4 drive.  But when I roll out the new Xeon and WBEL3 I'm switching 
> strategies.  The old server could use DDS4 because it had fairly small 
> drives but a tape drive that can back up 100+GB would cost almost as much 
> or even more than the server itself so I thought outside the box.  
> 
> External firewire enclosures with 120GB IDE drives.  Backup is as simple 
> as cp (or drag and drop if that is your thing) and you can still have 
> rotating backups, off-site copies and all of the things that make for a 
> well designed backup scheme.
> 
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I am not currently running WBL, looking into it. However, on my current linux
boxes I have a setup where data is backed up to disk on a central backup box
via the Amanda software. For archival purposes the Amanda data is put to tape.
I was using plain old tar for this, but ran into some issues. Possibly
associated with the size of the files created by the Amanda backups. I am
currently using Bru for the tape backups, since I had a bru license for one of
the boxes that is now running amanda. Bru seems better behaved than tar for
this purpose.

Josh

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