Re: Backup System
On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>>> I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused
>>>> hard drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3
>>>> computers. Is there a simple way to do this that can be
>>>> completely automated.
I've got 3 or 4 computers too, on Lenny. I've used Amanda for 10 years. It will write to tape or disk (I use a collection of 9 DLT tapes). It took a bit of futzing, but it's been solid as a rock since that first couple of weeks. Last time I looked, it was very CLI. And it takes a cron job to make it automatic.
I've never done a bare metal restore, but it's been fine for the small restores I've needed too do. That I have backups of stuff for a couple weeks is worth the massively slow tapes (and tape drive $$), IMHO. And it backs up using GNU tar (here, or dump if you like), just in case a really significant amount of software dies on you -- it's not much fun, but it's possible.
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Glenn English
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