I use amanda for network backups at work, but you need a tapedrive.
Getting enough tape capacity can be expensive, or you may have to run a
lot of cheap, slow, small tapes to get everything backed up. For awhile
I was using a TR-4 at home and it was a pain, not to mention that it was
noisy and not very reliable.
For my home PC, I'm using a disk drive in a removable drive cartridge
and use xfsdump to backup onto the removable disk in a "Tower of Hanoi"
sequence (see manpage for "dump" for an example). I wrote a script so I
just specify the level, and it runs xfsdump on the filesystems and
compresses the stream to files named with the date, filesystem, and
backup level. I take the removable disk to work, and copy the backups
onto my workstation at work which gets backed up by the amanda cycle.
If you can't do that, just remove the removable drive between backups,
and you might consider alternating between 2 removable drives. This
solution is tons cheaper and easier to work with than a tapedrive.
ATA-100 removable cartridge: $22
ATA-100 hard drive: $100-350 depending on the size you need, I suggest
at least 2x the capacity of what you want to back up
Getting the Tower of Hanoi going, you start with dump levels like this:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
then after that, you can do
3 2 5 4 7 6 9 8 1 (repeat)
When the removable drive starts getting full, delete some of the older
dumps, but make sure you keep your level-0 and the other dumps you need
to get up to the current date, then it might be a good time to do
another level-0 and clean up the disk.
"Bernhard R. Erdmann" wrote:
> > What is the best whay to backup a stand-alone server? Which tools do you use
> > and what are the experiences with it?
>
> Tool: Amanda
> Experience: great
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"Jonathan F. Dill" (dill@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
CARB IT Coordinator
Experimental Support Site http://concept.umbi.umd.edu
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