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Re: Disk mirroring and backups
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> > 2. Howdo *you* do backups? What hardware what software?
> > I'm ready to RTFM, just give me pointers.
> > From other hand I'd like to hear personal experinces.
>
> BTW is there any way to make backups with NT as backup server?
> Maybe via Samba?
sure, you can mount an NT drive and stick the daily tgz of your entire
machine, but that means a level 0 backup daily. amanda (freeware) and BRU
(commercial) will give you level 1, and 2 (or even 3 if needed). amanda
uses standard dump, but can be configured to use standard gtar so it's
actually easy to restore later in any environment.
I use the latest amanda here on two machines and backup 4 others through
the net. the two machines with the backup tapes (both a 12 cassette DDS2
autochangers) are a linux RH 4.2 and a SunOS 4.1.4, amanda is also ported
and runs on other types of unix machines.
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Ira Abramov <ira(a)scso.com> whois: IA58 (a linux enthuseist)
`Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.'
-- Darth Vader