I've been thinking about decent backup software for the past few days - partly inspired by your difficulty in finding something, and partly as a result of not finding a good network backup tool.
Currently I'm using a tape drive and rsync. IT doesn't scale well and gets intricate when you've got N hosts - contention is a real problem. I don't believe I could restore any single file easily; the tape drive is in use pretty much 100% of the day :(
OK half the problem is host N copies to drive; then N+1; then we wait for tape change. I guess I should be getting all the hosts to copy to "server" then dump that to the drive - problem is $server doesn't have the diskspace for the complete contents of a tape :(
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Date: 2002-07-08 02:15 pm (UTC)If you do have some idea's it'd be good to share.
I've been thinking about decent backup software for the past few days - partly inspired by your difficulty in finding something, and partly as a result of not finding a good network backup tool.
Currently I'm using a tape drive and rsync. IT doesn't scale well and gets intricate when you've got N hosts - contention is a real problem. I don't believe I could restore any single file easily; the tape drive is in use pretty much 100% of the day :(
OK half the problem is host N copies to drive; then N+1; then we wait for tape change. I guess I should be getting all the hosts to copy to "server" then dump that to the drive - problem is $server doesn't have the diskspace for the complete contents of a tape :(