Simple Backup question.

[Luis Paulo]

Right, backuppc stores the backups on a disk, no tape support.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:01, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. The webserver is a Document content management. So
> > yeah, its linked to a Database.. amd its very dynamic. Stuff will be
> > changed/added everyday.
>
> Have you looked at amanda?  amanda is/was a tape backup system that
> will do full and incremental backups to onboard hard disks, remote
> storage and tape devices...
>
> You need something that will do the incremental backups.  The actual
> backup strategy is entirely up to you (and it's configurable in amanda
> and all other  backup solutions) but I'd suggest at least a full
> backup once every week and incrementals the other 6 days of the week.
> And be sure to schedule them during the time when the server is least
> active.
>
> You can do a google search for linux backup solutions and you'll find
> plenty.
>
> One thing you may also want to consider, as it sounds like this is for
> a production system that's pretty important to your business, is look
> into and consider purchasing one of the commercial products...  they
> vary in complexity and price, but one thing you do get with the
> purchase is support should anything go wrong and you need to do a
> restore or to repair some weird uncommon issue.
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
>
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