Remote Backup Question

[Martin Hepworth]

Dave

16GB over an adsl line???

I'd look at amanda anyway. You can use disk as a virtual tape drive, and 
use gnutar as the end backup program to split up the 14GB server into 
chunks for more managable backups/restores. That way a level zero dump 
won't dump 14GB at you..

Amanda will balance the traffic so get get approx the same time every 
run (level 0's not included in this) and do level 0 backups at least 
once per tape cycle (or virtual tape cycle in your case).


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Dave Tiger wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> I am not using a tape drive but would like to pull the backup from the
> servers into a large disk array I have locally.
> 
> Currently I have a ADSL 512kbit for this operation but if I can get it
> working It will be upgraded.
> 
> Data amount
> 
> Server 1 = appx 500kb [ bind config files ]
> Server 2 = appx 14gig [ hosted webpages and config files]
> Server 3 = 100mb [ mysql databases]
> Server 4 = 1gig [ emails and config files ] 
> 
> The data size above are all uncompressed size.
> 
> After thinking about it a bit, maybe a cronned perl script to tar / gzip the
> relevant files and ftp them to my local box would be one way but again I
> have no clue about this or perl scripting.
> 
> I hope this helps clarify what I am trying to do.
> 
> Thank you for the help so far
> 
> Dave Carrera
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh at solid-state-logic.com] 
> Sent: 28 April 2004 11:20
> To: Dave Tiger
> Subject: Re: Remote Backup Question
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> you can tunnel amanda over ssh (www.amanda.org).
> 
> what sort of bandwidth do you have, how much data to backup with what 
> tape cycle (reuse every week, every 4 weeks etc)?
> 
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
> 
> Dave Tiger wrote:
> 
>>Hi List,
>>
>>I would like to know if there is a good way of backing up multiple 
>>servers remotely ?
>>
>>Let me explain:
>>
>>I have SSH access, if that helps, to 4 servers remotely of which I 
>>would like to backup to my local system.
>>
>>I have no idea where to start so I ask if this is possible and where 
>>or what to use for this.
>>
>>Thank you in advance for any advise or examples
>>
>>Dave Carrera
>>
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