Re: Backup Best Practice

Winston Sorfleet <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:06:00 -0500
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Assuming your alternate off-site media is tape, I would recommend 
looking into amvault.  That's true archival; if you want "live" 
alternate off-site, then I'd go with (2).  I'm not sure what you mean by 
3 backups, though.  Do you mean traditional level 1 and level 2?  amanda 
uses a bit of a different paradigm, deciding on its own when to do what 
with a scheduled backup window.

On 2024-12-27 04:03, duluxoz wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We're trying to follow backup best practice (ie the 3-2-1 Rule: 3 
> backups on 2 different media, 1 off-site). My question is: What's the 
> best way to achieve this:
>
>  1. Run three identical backups to each of the three destinations
>  2. Run a single backup and use something like scp or rsync to copy
>     the resulting backup files to the other two destinations
>  3. Or can Amanda backup to multiple destinations at once, and if so,
>     how is this accomplished
>
> Thanks in advance for the advice
>
> Cheers
>
> Dulux-Oz 
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    <p>Assuming your alternate off-site media is tape, I would recommend
      looking into amvault.  That's true archival; if you want "live"
      alternate off-site, then I'd go with (2).  I'm not sure what you
      mean by 3 backups, though.  Do you mean traditional level 1 and
      level 2?  amanda uses a bit of a different paradigm, deciding on
      its own when to do what with a scheduled backup window.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-12-27 04:03, duluxoz wrote:<br>
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      <p>Hi All,</p>
      <p>We're trying to follow backup best practice (ie the 3-2-1 Rule:
        3 backups on 2 different media, 1 off-site). My question is:
        What's the best way to achieve this:</p>
      <ol>
        <li>Run three identical backups to each of the three
          destinations</li>
        <li>Run a single backup and use something like scp or rsync to
          copy the resulting backup files to the other two destinations</li>
        <li>Or can Amanda backup to multiple destinations at once, and
          if so, how is this accomplished</li>
      </ol>
      <p>Thanks in advance for the advice</p>
      <p>Cheers</p>
      Dulux-Oz </blockquote>
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