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southern asks:
"I have a client that would like to backup his data to an external server in addition to tape. His office is made up of a couple of Linux server and a few NT machines. What backup services are out there for Linux servers? Services like NetMass and others only work with Windows."
TSM/Legato? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What the heck are "Rervices"? (Score:1)
Misspelling fixed. I just noticed it. This is what happens when you rush to post so you can take care of other work related tasks.
Host your own off-site? (Score:1)
Since you are uploading through the public internet you may want to encrypt your data. This can be done by uploading it through a VPN or you may just want to store the data as an encrypted file on the remote machine (just in case).
Like I said, I'd imagine this route wouldn't be cheap due to colo costs, but since I don't know exactly what it would cost you and how much you are willing to spend, it may be affordable. But it is your own machine that you control, you don't have to worry about your off-site backup company going broke and losing all your data.
NFS exports...IPsec/VPN (Score:2)
A simpler question (Score:1)
Re:A simpler question (Score:1)
I use rsync-over-ssh to sync my dev and production servers. It works *great*. Just add the --rsh=ssh option to the rsync command.
Is the data transfer portion of that not encrypted?
Re:A simpler question (Score:1)
Veritas NetBackup (Score:2, Informative)
Real backup solutions (Score:2)
Xdrive, co-location servers anything stored on the internet
WHY ?
SIZE matters
most people documents are fine but when a company has 2TBthen things change a bit really a full backup takes most of the night and is a real pain it has to be done to a fast location and also to a cheap device (you want more than one backup dont you!) that means DLT or some other tape then you simply take tape along to fire safe and send a copy to storage offsite so what am I saying ? Tar & gzip are your friend (dont mention veritas
really this is asking where can i store a couple of my personal files which the answer is
WebDAV
linux has DAVfs and there are a couple of utils
this is nice because MacOS suports it as well as windows (those funky office 2k and XP file dialogs have it as a selection )
really its quite simple
regards
john jones