[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Backup thread

[Dennis Gilmore]

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.


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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
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