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).
Coverity and Klocwork have been running their static analysis tools on the latest Amanda source code and making the results available for the Amanda developers to analyse and fix the defects. Currently (July 7, 2006), we have zero defects found by these tools. We are thankful to these companies for making these tools available and in general, helping to improve quality of open source projects.
Backed up data is especially vulnerable. In many environments, while lot of work is done on network security, secure management of backup data is not given due concern. Since backup data has sometimes all of the important information at a single place, it is a juicy target for espionage. Data should be encrypted while moving to a backup sever (especially while using a online backup service over the internet) and definitely encrypted while it is stored on the backup media (tape, CDs etc.).
One alternative is to setup network based open source backup software, Amanda. With bunch of SATA drives sitting on a Linux server, you can put together a low-cost backup solution relatively quickly:
Doesn't a live OS CD such as Knoppix achieve this goal? These are usually built for "everything you need" for a particular purpose. You can still access and create data on disks on that system, but you never corrupt the programs themselves. If all the applications being used are web based, then things are even simpler - simply boot up with Knoppix, open Firefox and you are ready to go.
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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).
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.
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Developer_documen tation
Backed up data is especially vulnerable. In many environments, while lot of work is done on network security, secure management of backup data is not given due concern. Since backup data has sometimes all of the important information at a single place, it is a juicy target for espionage. Data should be encrypted while moving to a backup sever (especially while using a online backup service over the internet) and definitely encrypted while it is stored on the backup media (tape, CDs etc.).
http://www.zmanda.com/quick-backup-setup.html
Doesn't a live OS CD such as Knoppix achieve this goal? These are usually built for "everything you need" for a particular purpose. You can still access and create data on disks on that system, but you never corrupt the programs themselves. If all the applications being used are web based, then things are even simpler - simply boot up with Knoppix, open Firefox and you are ready to go.
http://www.zmanda.com/downloads.html
I can recommend open source backup software Amanda for backup of such a storage.