Posted by
Cliff
on from the millions-of-onsite-backups-aren't-enough dept.
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."
Both TSM (formerly ADSM; from IBM) and Legato Networker have linux and NT servers/clients. However, the license fees for them are somewhat steep, reaching into the 4 figure area quite quickly.
A lot of people I have worked with or talked to about this type of service use NFS over a private or virtual private network. With srtict controls over who can see your NFS exports, it can be quite secure. Any number of tools can be used to automate the backup process, depending on how you wish to have files archived. For incremental and full periodic backups you can use free tools.
Veritas NetBackup
by
BobBoLo
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· Score: 2, Informative
Veritas NetBackup has a multi platform backup solution. They don't have a linux server solution yet, but they have linux clients.
what cant handle a backup?
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 )
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Both TSM (formerly ADSM; from IBM) and Legato Networker have linux and NT servers/clients. However, the license fees for them are somewhat steep, reaching into the 4 figure area quite quickly.
A lot of people I have worked with or talked to about this type of service use NFS over a private or virtual private network. With srtict controls over who can see your NFS exports, it can be quite secure. Any number of tools can be used to automate the backup process, depending on how you wish to have files archived. For incremental and full periodic backups you can use free tools.
Veritas NetBackup has a multi platform backup solution. They don't have a linux server solution yet, but they have linux clients.
what cant handle a backup?
;-)
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