Re: OT Tape Backup

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Date: 11 Aug 2003 18:03:26 -0500

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

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