Guy Boisvert wrote:
> System Admin wrote:
>> We have about 5 servers spread out throughout the country: 2 Centos
>> 4.4, 1 Red Hat and 2 windows machines- looking for some good ideas
>> for a back-up solution. Our servers hold a lot of data, but only a
>> small portion of it is crucial on any given day. That crucial
>> portion is always changing (for example, this week the crucial files
>> all relate to November- current and previous projects, and the next
>> project in early December). What we need to have is a backup
>> solution that would allow us to roll back to any given day (about
>> four weeks of daily history). Bare-metal backups are a must.
>>
>> Our ideal solution would be to find someone who could design and
>> implement a system for us. All ideas and suggestions are welcome.
>>
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>
> Hi!
>
> Have a look at: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>
> I use this kind of setup for my clients, works like a charm. I made
> my own scripts and we can hold easily last 30 days in rolling scheme.
> It works over SSH and support compression of the stream. RSync is
> very efficient. For Winblows, check:
>
>
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_pag
e&PAGE_id=6&MMN_position=23:23
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Guy Boisvert
> IngTegration inc.
I've also written up a howto on this very subject. You can read about it
here: http://marks-tech-pages.blogspot.com . I got started with mikerubel,
and took it further.
HTH
Mark
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