Re: Replacing duply for backup
Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote:
>
>> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity.
>>
>> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and
>> duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg passphrase
>> in clear text. Since bug 807329 has no answer at all, I am looking to
>> another way to do my backups, which could use all the past backups for
>> the transition.
>>
>> What to use ?
> I am a great fan of amanda, and have been using it since the late '90's.
> Once configured and running, I can forget about it as the job of making a
> backup becomes just another entry in a crontab. I get an emailed report,
> both from amanda and from my wrappers. amanda does its own housekeeping
> and record keeping, and recovery is very fast if using virtual tapes
> that are actually directories on another big hard drive. And the drive
> is about $90 at the vendors for a 1Tb, which I think is very comparable
> to a tape library and 40 or so tapes at something north of $10,000. And
> in nearly a decade, 50,000% more dependable than tape. One drive failed
> in a decade, and it warned me in plenty of time to go to town and get
> another. Zero data loss.
>
> But you will have to get rid of your do a full on Friday's. You tell
> amanda how many days amanda has to do a level0 on everything, and amanda
> will fiddle with the schedule until each nights run saves about the same
> amount of data. Everything else gets an incremental. So I can do a bare
> metal recovery to a new main drive with nothing more than the install
> dvd, tar and cp to extract last nights copy of the database and amanda
> config that generated that backup, giving amanda the data it needs to do
> its work, and have this system restored to its state as of about 2am
> this morning, all in about 3 hours + the time to go get a new drive from
> Staples.
>
> Whats not to like?
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Can amanda backyup on a ftp server or google drive ?
That's what I do now.
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