[lug] Backup system ideas

[Dan Ferris]

The last place I used this method had about 75GB necessary for backup.  
We backed up to 120 GB removable drives every night.  I used Windows 
RoboCopy.  It worked very well until an idiot manager who thought he was 
some kind of IT god started screwing with it and messed the entire thing up.

In my current environment we have 2 1.2 TB RAID arrays and I'm about to 
add a third one.  I suppose if I really wanted to, I could get something 
like an 8 channel SATA 3ware RAID controller and a bunch of 400 GB 
drives and back up to that.  I wish our previous sys admin had done that 
instead of the LTO library they bought, because it would probably have 
been a LOT cheaper.  By the way, we use AMANDA.  The best thing I can 
say about AMANDA is that it works.  Commercial backup software is better.

Dan

billjorg at qwest.net wrote:

>Dan:
>
>How much do you need to backup?
>
>I am aware of some very "sucessful" backup environments that use Amanda
>with HP DAT tape decks. The amount of data and rotation of the tapes would
>drive the type of hardware architecture. Unfortunately I have not used
>Amanda personally, but I have had to support shops that do. It seems to
>take very good care of their needs.
>
>HTH,
>
>Bill
>
>Original Message:
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>From: Dan Ferris dan at usrsbin.com
>Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:26:56 -0600
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] Backup system ideas
>
>
>In all seriousness, that particular solution only works for a somewhat 
>SMALL amount of data.
>
>Dan
>
>Dan Ferris wrote:
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>>Ahhh, but on the 8th day the lord invented the removable hard drive 
>>bay :-)
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>Hugh Brown wrote:
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>>>The one great benefit of tape is that it is easy to take offsite.  
>>>Anyone
>>>know whether data decays faster on tape or on disk?
>>>
>>>Hugh
>>>
>>>On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dan Ferris wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Another vote for rsync and disk drives.  Tape is my weapon of last 
>>>>resort.
>>>>
>>>>Mike Stanczyk wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Since the suggestions every submitted were so great the last time
>>>>>(pdf creation), I'd like your suggestions and horror stories about
>>>>>backup systems.
>>>>>
>>>>>The problem:
>>>>>The NT4sp6 server's Travan tape drive is dying.  I've scavanged
>>>>>enough old hardware to build a backup machine.  The backup machine
>>>>>will run linux on an internal ide drive with an external scsi
>>>>>drive to host backup files.  If a spare scsi tape drive of mine
>>>>>checks out, that will go in as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>The software:
>>>>>Amanda and Backula are on my research list.  Other suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>Other sillyness:
>>>>>Windows XP, 2000, and 98 are around too.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>Mike
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