Backkup solution

[Danny Butroyd]

Peter Grandi wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:02:24 +0000, ammad shah
>>>> <mammadshah at hotmail.com> said:
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>> Dear All, I want to know the backup solution for small
>> office/home office (60-200 nodes). i want to move the backup
>> weekly to Disaster recovery site. should i select Tape backup
>> or Disk backup. what is cost effective solution (price and
>> brand(ibm/hp/dell/......) .
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> That's not really a question for a mailing list for Linux
> support on Dell servers. Anyhow, staying bartely in topic, it
> all depends on how much data and how many copies you want to
> make, and Dell and GNU/Linux support several different ways.
>
> I personally prefer backup to disk, and something like a PE 2900
> with a set of drives in a RAID10 looks to me like a pretty good
> backup solution for up to a few TB to backup, for example.
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> Since we are talking GNU/Linux, client backup solutions like
> Amanda or perhaps better 'rbackup' would seem natural.
>   
And if we are talking client backup solutions then you should really 
look into Bacula (http://www.bacula.org).......it rocks! :)


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