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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote: > I'm curious to know what people use, and would recommend, as ways to > manage backups. Specifically, on-site backups, both of large amounts > of data (in this case, videos for a editing group), and configuration > files and website data (linux (Debian) server). > -- > Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin - staticfree.info/~samuel/<http://staticfree.info/%7Esamuel/> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > I like Bacula. It operates from a central management server, then you have 1 or many storage devices that it can control. So in my situation, I've got the main bacula director in my main datacenter, each datacenter has an server with a ton of disk space (disk based backup) and a local tape library. The main server has a list of all clients to backup and that they should be backed up to the local server's disk for fast retrieval, then pushes the backups to the local tape library. If I didn't care about my bandwidth costs, I could change the config files to say that client in datacenter A backed up to server and tape library in datacenter B. It also has a windows client for those who want to backup windows desktops or servers. The windows client also supports Windows Volume Shadow Copy for copying live data while it's being accessed. http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html -matt http://www.sysadminvalley.com http://www.beantownhost.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboston Doug Larson - "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
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