[Nottingham] Tape Backup Systems

[Michael Simms]

The question I have these days is - WHY would anyone use a tape drive
any more!

Use a hard drive, its quicker, its cheaper, you dont have to keep
remembering to change tapes. If you need to have offsite, just put
things onto a USB stick which is faster and cheaper than buying all
those tapes.

Personally I simply backup using rsync to a remote server. It does a
good job of backing up about 50GB of data at low bandwidthes and
requires NO human interaction, it just does it for me and I dont have to
care or remember to change tapes/discs/sticks. Remote servers arent
cheap I agree but Im sure that the LUG could set up something like a
backup ring where 2 people offer each other accounts on each others
systems and you backup to each others machines, giving offsite backup to
both at no cost...


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 08:53 +0100, Richard Bagshaw wrote:
> Howdi,
> 
> I've been playing around with various backup solutions over the past
> few weeks and wondered if anyone had any suggestions on decent
> hardware and software - all I am looking todo is install a tape drive
> into a centos server and then have that do one full backup each week
> and the rest for that week being diffs, i've played around with mt and
> thought about writing just a bunch of bash scripts and set them as
> cron's etc, is this the best way todo this? or is there other software
> like "amanda" that is much more beneficial ?
> 
> Also in terms of hardware, I have been looking at SCSI LTO drives of
> various brands, is there anything I should look out for when choosing
> hardware? obviously the more opensource happy the hardware is the
> better, one such device I looked at was a freecom
> (http://www.freecom.com/objects/00006700.pdf)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Bagshaw
> richard at bagshaw.co.uk 
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