[MLUG] OT: Linux friendly tape backup

[Jean-Francois Theroux]

We use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. We grab a copy of files which are stored
on a SAN for local and quick access to our backups. We also have an IBM tape
library that's used for offsite storage. We send every day a copy of our
backups to Recall. Soon to be Iron Mountain, Recall's not great.

For a TB of data, you almost have no choice but to use a loader/library.

As far as schedule are concerned: TSM works a bit differently than other
solutions, you run 1 full the first time then its always incrementals
afterward. I'm no expert on it, I don't take care of it, but it's a very
nice solution. Way cheaper than other commercial solutions like Netbackup
too.

And it's a cross-platform program: it runs on anything and can backup pretty
much anything you can throw at it.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:32 PM, David Filion <david at filiontech.com> wrote:

>
> We currently use hard drives / DVDs  now, and while it works, it's not
> the greatest.  Off site is only an option if it's our own hardware.
>
> For those with a terrabyte of data to backup (ideally nightly), what do
> you do/use?
>
> David
>
>
> patricia campbell wrote:
> > Have you looked into Zmanda's service to backup to Amazon s3, is
> > anyone using this ?
> > May I also ask why you're thinking of tape versus offsite/cloud,
> > portable disk?
> >
> > Tricia
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Emery Guévremont
> > <emery.guevremont at gmail.com <mailto:emery.guevremont at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     David Filion wrote:
> >     > I'm currently in the process of planning the upgrade/replacement
> >     of our
> >     > backup solution (HDs and DVDs) at the office.  One of the steps is
> >     > migrating to tape backups for the larger (if not all) datasets
> >     (10g -
> >     > 1000g).
> >     >
> >     > So, anyone know a Linux friendly tape drive and/or robot? and
> >     software
> >     > to go with it?  I've heard good things about Bacula but I
> >     haven't had
> >     > time to play with it yet.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     Bacula. Great software, well documented well supported. The hardest
> >     thing is to configure it. Once it's configured, it is solid.
> >
> >     5 years old ago, I was using Amanda, which is pretty good. Then I
> >     switched to Bacula... Haven't looked back since. I was using several
> >     Quantum Superloaders and a Dell Powervault with Bacula.
> >     > David
> >     >
> >     >
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Jean-François Théroux
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http://www.theroux.ca

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