Simple Backup question.

[Arthur Johnson]

I haven't used Amanda yet, but plan on it in the future.  Check out
this tutorial:

http://howtoforge.com/disk_based_backups_amanda_debian_etch

R1Soft has some impressive backup utilities.  We've used them for years:

http://www.r1soft.com


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Luis Paulo <luis.barbas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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