Thanks! ZFS brings up another question about encrypting data. Is there a feature in gluster that helps with encrypting data when it's written to the file system? On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> wrote: > Netbackup is great and can probably backup directly from a glusterFS > client mount, however, the license and software cost for a few clients > and one server/media server is nearly $50k. ?Not exactly cheap. ?Id > look into Amanda backup if I was on a budget and wanted to backup to > tape. > > Another option is to just do rsync your gluster cluster to a Sun > Solaris server with a ZFS partition. ?Then you can do nightly zfs > snapshots of your data (snapshots only save what changes so it uses > very little space). > > liam > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks! have you heard of netbackup? Our co. already has license for >> it. I think it can be used. >> >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote: >>> I read the docs. But here you go : >>> >>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backuppc+howto >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Thanks! Is there a short blog or steps that I can look at. >>>> documentaion looks overwhelming at first look :) >>>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> for the amount of features that you get with backuppc, it's worth the >>>>> fairly painless setup. Btw, we've found that it's better/faster to use >>>>> tar via backuppc (it supports rsync as well) to do the backups rather >>>>> than rsync in backuppc. Rsync can be really slow if you have >>>>> thousands/millions of files. >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Is there a problem with using just rsync vs backupcc? I need to read >>>>>> about backupcc and how easy it is to setup. >>>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gluster-users mailing list >>> Gluster-users at gluster.org >>> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >
