Re: Backup Scripts - can o worms
On Thursday 31 March 2005 19:56, Alvin Oga wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Tom Allison wrote:
>> OK, I've been examining the various packages available to me for
>> data backup and I was wondering if anyone might have used
>> something like:
>>
>> bacula
>> backupninja
>> backup21
>> backup-manager
You missed amanda, the best backup ever.
>to order to pick and use the "right backup scripts" :
>
> - you'd need to know where you are backing up into
> - how often you want to do backups
> - how big is your data to be backed up
> - how you intend to recover data from backups
> - how critical is the data if "backups failed" yesterday
> for any number of dozen reasons
> - how long do you want to retain your backups
>
> - if you find a cracker in your box, how far back are
> you willing to let the sleeping cracker be in the box
>
> if you wiped out last weeks backup with today's backup
> you will no longer have a "clean backup"
>
> - what happens to your bakcup strategy when your
> "full backup failed"
>
> - if the machine died, how long can you be down,
> while you [try to] recover from backups
> - you will not always to receover every new file
> if you're not careful
>
> - if you like webgui stuff or not
> - if you want/need to backup windoze or not
> - ...
>
>- "find | tar" meets all of the above requirements for me
> since i can control everything with those 2 commands
>
>- not all backups apps does all of the above
>
>- rest of the free backup scripts to various media with various
> methodology
>
> http://Linux-Backup.net/App
>
>c ya
>alvin
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