Backup solutions for Linux servers

Thu May 12 17:51:43 UTC 2011

On Thu, 12 May 2011, 19:26:42 CEST, David Bear <David.Bear at asu.edu<mailto:David.Bear at asu.edu>> wrote:

> I don't think this hijacks the thread -- its part of the over all
> question,
> because a good backup solution is useless without a good restoration.
>
> This is my concern as well - we do a lot of rsycn'ing in addition to
> using
> Tivoli (TSM). TSM is centrally run and provides more of a disaster
> recovery
> option for us rather than a quick 'restore point' solution. I'm sure TSM
> could do that as well, but so far, we haven't worked through details of
> making that work with the guys that run TSM.
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:33 AM, cliff here <c4ifford at gmail.com<mailto:c4ifford at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Not to hijack the thread from the OP, but I would be curious to see
> what
> > people are doing for a bare metal backups, since most of the actual
> data I
> > have are usually rsynced.
> >
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Vincent Van der Kussen <
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> > > Do you need bare metal recovery or just the ability to restore
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> > >
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> > > To: bob.sauvage at gmx.fr<mailto:bob.sauvage at gmx.fr>; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > Subject: Re: Backup solutions for Linux servers
> > >
> > > I've tried a program called mondo to make .iso snapshots of servers
> -
> > > however we had problems to get it to work with LVMs and I haven't
> > revisited
> > > it in a while.
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Bob Sauvage <bob.sauvage at gmx.fr<mailto:bob.sauvage at gmx.fr>>
> wrote:
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> > > > Hi *,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know what is your favorite solution to backup your
> > Linux
> > > > servers.
> > > >
> > > > Do you use rsnapshot ? Do you backup your data's on the cloud (via
> a
> > > SaaS)
> > > > ?
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> > > > Cheers,
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> > > > Bob !
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We use Bacula for backups. I think it can do bare metal restores to, but not sure about that.

Rear is something i would use for disaster recovery.