Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days
On Oct 20, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Ondřej Grover <ondrej.grover@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for backup solutions that don't reinvent the wheel and are reliable and used.
Have you considered Amanda? It's been around for quite a long time, it's worked very reliably for me for the past 15 or so years, it'll do an entire net, it's free, and apt-get will install it for you. It uses tar or dump (your choice) to write the backup, so if you lose the program, you can recover with standard *nix utilities.
I don't know what you use for backup media. I use tape, and that's what Amanda was originally designed for, but I hear it does disks now as well.
> I want to backup two servers to a backup server. The main data content is several hundred GB in many very small files.
Amanda doesn't require another box; one of the two can do it -- lots of free CPU cycles if you're using tape. But it does require a big hunk of disk space for a cache.
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Glenn English
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