Les Mikesell wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I mainly want to use it as a backup server for hosting servers, so
I'll focus on FTP / SSH / SFTP / iSCSI (if possible), and maybe NFS
- I don't want SMB (for security reasons). I'll probably also add
Webmin to allow users to browse their backups via HTTPS, manage
folders, etc.
You might like backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) for a
backup system that will let individual machine 'owners'
browse/restore their own backups while using compression and linking
all duplicate files to use much less disk space than you'd expect.
There's some tradeoff in speed compared to straight rsync and it
needs more CPU, but the disk savings and ease of use might be worth it.
Yes, Backuppc is one of the programs we'll suggest :)
The pooling won't have the same effect if you run many separate
instances sharing the file server. If you run a single instance that
backs up many machines, you only actually store one copy of each
unique file and all duplicates become hardlinks to that instance
whether the duplicates are found across hosts or in different runs of
the same host.
If these are real or virtual hosts you can give their owners web
access to only their own host's backups. If you have virtual web
sites on the same host you have to go through some contortions to
split control but it is still possible.
Yes, I realize that, but it would save space for those hosts who have
more than 1 copy of the same file. Each account on the backup server
will belong to one host / reseller / VPS owner.
But it will also be used for Linux control panels like cPanel, Plesk,
Webmin, etc which use traditional FTP backup (via local LAN only).
And those won't have any pooling.
I'm not too concerned about this :)
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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
CEO, SoftDux
Web: http://www.SoftDux.com
Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff
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