On Friday 23 June 2006 19:53, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > Mike McGrath wrote: > > Refer to previous meeting notes and list emails for whats been said so > > far but here's the short list: > > > > bacula, amanda, rsync and scrips, rdiff-backup > > > > dgilmore is one of the guys leading the backup stuffbut participation > > is > > encouraged by everyone. I'd like to throw backuppc in the list just > > because I use it / like it. It might be good for our environment. > > From what I have seen of backuppc I also agree it might be a good one > to have on the list. Ill check it out, > > Any thoughts / suggestions? > > My main thoughts at this point would be to compose a list of our > requirements (what are we planning to backup, how much data, type of > rotation, etc). Right now there are some cvs repositories, database dumps, and some other files at about 34GB of data. Id need someone with the right access to do a du -hs /home on each server that has home dirs needing backup. to know how big that is. I would think that we would do weekly full backup daily incrementals, and keep 3 or 4 weeks worth. > I do agree with Mike that adding home directories to the list of what we > back up would probably be worthwhile, especially since a few people have > lost things in the past. The native ssh support would also be a good > thing. native ssh support is definetly something that will be useful > Once we have a list of requirements the backup packages can be better > compared to see how well they meet our needs. -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE Proud Australian
