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Use AMANDA to do the back-ups. Use Amazon's S3 to actually store the dumps compressed and encrypted at the source — AMANDA has had the S3 back-end for a while. No, you do not need "Amanda Enterprise".

Having set just such a thing up at my last job, I'd be happy to help you out for a regular consulting fee. Should not take more than a week or two even on a large organization.

http://www.zmanda.com/company.html

"Zmanda: The Leader in Open Source Backup
Proven, Cost-Effective Open Source Backup and Recovery

Zmanda is the world’s leading provider of open source backup and recovery software. Our open source development and distribution model enables us to deliver the highest quality backup software such as Amanda Enterprise and Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL at a fraction of the cost of software from proprietary vendors. Our simple-to-use yet feature-rich backup software is complemented by top-notch services and support expected by enterprise customers."

http://www.amanda.org
"Amanda Network Backup
Open Source. Open Formats. Open APIs.
What is Amanda?

AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup solution that allows the IT administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native utilities and formats (e.g. dump and/or GNU tar) and can back up a large number of servers and workstations running multiple versions of Linux or Unix. Amanda uses a native Windows client to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers.

The most recent stable release is version 3.3.7p1, released on February 15, 2015. "

Yeah, if you really need to back up 180 TB per week, then you should probably save time by writing multiple tapes in parallel. They wouldn't need to be smaller, though - you could still save a lot of storage room by reusing the large tapes.

Sounds like RAIT!

Surely you jest? Getting amanda to encrypt your backups. Is just a matter of reading some howto files on amanda's website. And, just peeking over at bacula's website, I can see that they have a similar sort of setup. I don't use bacula, but I'm sure it is a matter of following the directions just like with amanda. It is not clear how anyone can consider encrypting backup tapes as a difficult process. For that matter, with TrueCrypt, OpenSSL, GnuPG, FreeBSD's geli, and linux's dm-crypt encryption in general has become easy and accessible. Add to that the hardware acceleration built into most new systems or just pure computational power of modern processors and organizations are remiss for not using encryption at nearly every turn. If you don't, you should lose your job.

Is the open source solution close enough to the needs of the Ontario government that, as the article alleges, all you need to do is buy some servers and set it up and there are negligible other costs? I seriously doubt it. I would be willing to bet heavily against it. Anyone who thinks otherwise probably hasn't spent much time developing software for government.

I haven't, no...but what are said needs?

I'm assuming that the main component of a record system is going to be a database. You'll also need a usable system and interface for entering and retrieving said records into the DB. You're also going to want to do SQL dumps and periodic offsite backups, so that if anything goes wrong, you can get the data back.

Of course, it will also be very important to ensure that the operating system the database is hosted on, is as robust as possible, to minimise the possibility of crashes; as well as a strong filesystem for times when you need to make a lot of queries at once. Even though that system is meant for servers, you can still make it user friendly for your administrative staff as well, if you need to.

If you're going to want the records accessible from outside the hospital, you'll probably also want to make sure that they are protected by a couple of very secure firewalls, as well, since it could potentially mean the loss of someone's life if they get cracked.

Finally, they will need to make sure that whoever puts the network together does so according to sound administration principles, as well.

Perhaps Maryland has come to the sad, sad realization that The Advanced Maryland 'Automated' Network Disk Archiver is the biggest POS ever to come out of that state? And that calling Pavel at Zmanda http://www.zmanda.com/contact.html for help is a doomed task? Just sayin', that's all...

A belated (and biased) vote for Amanda - Open Source Backup. Amanda automatically figures out the most optimal level of backup, and stores data in a very standard format (so you can recover data even if Amanda was not running).

Especially as it claims to be "The Most Popular Open Source Backup and Recovery Software"

http://amanda.zmanda.com/

I'd be interested to read what any of it's users think of it in comparison to commercial apps.

GrpA.

Remote backup of MySQL is available:

http://zmanda.com/backup-mysql.html

Actually Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL provides a uniform method of backing up all storage engines.

Except that AMANDA now has tape spanning.

http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Developer_documen tation

zmanda and other amanda hackers have been actively developing AMANDA. While the comparison of bugs in new code and legacy code might be interesting, one wouldn't really see this by just counting projects.

http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html

http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html

http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html

I can recommend open source backup software Amanda for backup of such a storage.

I especially like info provided by http://wiki.zmanda.com./ It seems Amanda wiki is written by users for users and is really helpful not just for newbies but also for advanced Amanda users. ----- dj

Amanda 2.4.4 is in debian stable. 2.4.5p1 is under test. 2.5.0 will be available from the debian maintainer soon.
It will be also available from http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html site soon

We need to decide on the release version? 2.6? 2.5.1?

Following is the list of features that have been requested:

- Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
- Amanda user ids consistency (sourceforge bug 1416737) - Requested by
Paul Bijnens, Mitch Collinsworth
- Backing up filesystem ACLs (schily tar support)
- Design and implementation of application API (new Dumper API)
    (Proposal in http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API )
- Cleaning up the device interface to support WORM devices
    (Suggested by mhelmling http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=28 )

Of course, all open bugs in sourceforge.net bug tracker have to be addressed.

If you have feature requests or if you find bugs, please post them in
sourceforge.net bug tracker
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=120&atid =100120)

Thanks,
Paddy

We need to decide on the release version? 2.6? 2.5.1?

Following is the list of features that have been requested:

- Support for POSIX file names (allowing spaces in filenames)
- Amanda user ids consistency (sourceforge bug 1416737) - Requested by
Paul Bijnens, Mitch Collinsworth
- Backing up filesystem ACLs (schily tar support)
- Design and implementation of application API (new Dumper API)
    (Proposal in http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API )
- Cleaning up the device interface to support WORM devices
    (Suggested by mhelmling http://forums.zmanda.com/showthread.php?t=28 )

Of course, all open bugs in sourceforge.net bug tracker have to be addressed.

If you have feature requests or if you find bugs, please post them in
sourceforge.net bug tracker
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=120&atid =100120)

Thanks,
Paddy

Take a look at the Application API (http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API) proposal.

Take a look at http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Firewalls_%26_NAT
Amanda conntrack module will also help in firewall configuration.

Nope. This is the *real* Amanda release. I checked on Sourceforge as well. Zmanda seems to be a company behind Amanda project. You can see the rainbow'ed Amanda logo on their wiki (http://wiki.zmanda.com/)

You mean http://forums.zmanda.com/ , right?

Must be 2 old !!

A good piece of software thats getting some attention it deserves. Looking at http://amanda.zmanda.com/amanda-25-released.html and the wiki at http://wiki.amanda.com/ it feel like amanda is getting the recognition it deserves. For newbies I would recommed http://forums.zmanda.com/ and the wiki above.

A good piece of software thats getting some attention it deserves. Looking at http://amanda.zmanda.com/amanda-25-released.html and the wiki at http://wiki.amanda.com/ it feel like amanda is getting the recognition it deserves. For newbies I would recommed http://forums.zmanda.com/ and the wiki above.

Quick response from Amanda development community. Amanda moved from bottom to the top of list!!!! 108 defects addressed within a week. I think this shows the strength of the open source software development methodology. Zero defects found means it will be in top of the list.
See http://scan.coverity.com/ for latest Coverity testing results.
Paddy
Amanda developer
http://wiki.zmanda.com/ for Amanda information