opensource backup software suggestions please

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:15, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
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>>What are the users here opinions on enteriprise grade opensource software 
>>for doing backups, as an alternative to bakbone or veritas.
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>>We just have basic requirements, i.e backing up nfs servers.
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>If an online disk-based solution will work, with the ability to
>to manually archive a copy to tape, look at backuppc:
>http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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I've found that backing up to another disk to be both faster and more 
practical.  We've got a number of multi-terabyte RAID arrays to store 
uncompressed video.  Backing all that data up to tape just isn't a 
tenable solution.  So we've bitten the bullet and built an extra larger 
multi-terabyte array to do online backups.  Periodically we do snapshots 
of the data on that backup array (like you do on a netapp filer).  That 
system works well for us.  It wouldn't cover us if the building burned 
down so the next step is an offsite mirrored array.

Cheers,

C