I just started using arkeia the other day, and I'm rather impressed so far. They give you a 2 client license of version 4.2 for free (so you can backup the server, and 2 linux or windows clients) if you're using a linux backup server. You can make backups to tape or disk with it. Plus it has a little bit of eye candy; while backups are running, you can log in with the gui client (java client that works on a bunch of platforms) and see the speed at which the backups are running in a speedometer style display ... Hey, what can I say, I like pretty things :) I'm not sure if this is feasible at all, but could you use software raid and mirror your normal disk to the removeable one? Just a wacky solution that I thought of when someone mentioned LVM ... -Marc -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:04 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] backup recomendation On Thursday 24 October 2002 9:55 am, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
What do people out there use for backup tools. Anyone use Amanda? Any
good?
HI Karl, I use BRU at home for my backups on my SCSI TR5 tape drive and it works great. It is a commercial product and you can find more info here: http://www.tolisgroup.com/ Also, for a while I used Arkeia which seems to be more for professional environments and not for home users. It is also a commercial product. You can find more info here: http://www.arkeia.com/ Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
That doesn't satisfy my need for daily incremental backups. A Hard drive a day is way too expensive :) On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Marc Hughes wrote:
I'm not sure if this is feasible at all, but could you use software raid and mirror your normal disk to the removeable one? Just a wacky solution that I thought of when someone mentioned LVM ...
-Marc
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:04 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] backup recomendation
On Thursday 24 October 2002 9:55 am, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
What do people out there use for backup tools. Anyone use Amanda? Any
good?
HI Karl,
I use BRU at home for my backups on my SCSI TR5 tape drive and it works great. It is a commercial product and you can find more info here:
Also, for a while I used Arkeia which seems to be more for professional environments and not for home users. It is also a commercial product. You can find more info here:
Later,
Andy
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:57:49AM -0400, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
That doesn't satisfy my need for daily incremental backups. A Hard drive a day is way too expensive :)
I guess it depends how much data you're backing up. I've heard of 160GB drives for ~$117, which is roughly ~$0.73 per GB (if you're on the SAGE mailing list, you've seen that thread...) That's a better price than the backup tapes required to get the same storage capacity. But if you're only backing up 8GB, then it's not so good. ;) I personally have HW RAID 1 to handle single disk failures, xfsdump level 0 weekly and level 1 daily online to a seperate section of hard drive (I keep 2 copies of each type of backup, so I have 2 weeklys and 2 dailys. It handles the standard "lost/corrupted my file", etc, requests), and a weekly disaster recovery backup using BRU to DDS2 tape (still only need 1 tape at the moment... :) ) which I hope to never use (it handles restore requests for > 1-2 weeks, and handles the issue if the RAID controller or both drives die at once, or I get cracked, or ...) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "No animals were harmed in this production. Any resemblence to other smoking cats, real or imagined, is purely coincidental." - Richard Basile
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