Re: Tape backups
Oystein Viggen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.trustix.general |
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* [Ariën Huisken] > When looking on sf.net there are hundreds of projects doing some sort > of automated backup, but I have no time to test all of them. > > Maybe someone has suggestions for me? When I worked at Trustix, I set up BackupPC (on TSL 2.2 of course) to backup all our laptops and all relevant data from the servers. BackupPC does NOT do tape, but is a disk based backup system. It backs up over rsync+ssh, and puts the files in a pool based on md5sum (with collision handling). Backups are stored as directory trees hard linked into the md5sum pool. This means that the same file stored on many different computers will only use disk space once on the backup server. Very nice if you have lots of systems that are mostly similar. Compression (gzip -3) is used by default, but can be turned off. It also features a nice Web GUI for monitoring and restoring. Restores can be done to a backup client or downloaded as a .zip or .tar file from the web. All in all a very nice backup system if you don't require offsite backup (tape). Øystein -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. ..of course, the virus would tell you the same thing.. _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss