Best practice / tools for backing up a server before production ?

[Adam Williams]

are you using tape backups?  disk to disk backups?

There's several different tools you can look at.  tar, amanda, bacula.

Personally I want to move away my servers from tar because it can't do 
incremental backups.  I plan on migrating to bacula.  www.bacula.org

Florent Gilain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could someone give me informations concerning best practices of backing up
> my server under RHEL3 or RHEL4.
>
> I suppose i should :
>
> 1) configure the server as i want it
> 2) Do a full backup / image using a third party tool/software
> 3) Put the server in production
> 4) Backup only changed datas everyday
>
> Thanks, i know many of you are Linux Gurus...so your advices will help me a
> lot; i suppose some tools/software are better than others...
>
> PS : free softs/tools would be better...but simplicity can too make the
> difference !
> PS2 : according to me, the simple way would be to have a network bootable
> CDROM that would allow me to boot the server, then run the image / backup
> tool to save files to a remote server (linux or window$$..) isn't it ?
>
> Florent
>
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