[oclug] Dumb questions about backups

[Phil Labonte]

Thanks Vic

The server that all the developpers have a home directory is Spidey, and it
is very full!!!

Also we would rather have the raw files and the cvs on seperate machines.

Also all the developers need to remember two passwords one for the local and
one for spidey and now one for this new backup server.

I am getting a beefy server for these backups...  but I will look into
rsync.

The backups are getting close to 30gigs, I could easily make it up to almost
50 gigs a night without each individual developers box...

It's getting nuts growing too fast!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic Gedris" <vic at worldwidepunk.com>
To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [oclug] Dumb questions about backups


> On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Phil Labonte wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a question about backups.  I work as a sys admin for a small
startup
> > (90 employees). About 50 employees are software dev.  Most of them use
Linux
> > as their dev platform.    I want to setup a Linux backup server so that
I
> > can get the developpers to save their daily work onto the server that
gets a
> > backup every night.  Right now only the CVS repositoy gets a backup
every
> > day.  I am getting resistance from the developpers about installing an
NFS
> > server because they all worked for a larger company and remember how
often
> > the nfs server went down at their previous job.  What  I would like to
get
> > is a Linux server that has raid hardware so that the down time will be
non
> > existent hopefully.  I just wanted to see what anyone else out there is
> > using in this type of situation or if anyone has any suggestions?
> >
> > Another suggestion is to have the developpers save their work in their
local
> > home directory and have a cron job that copies all their files to the
> > nfsserver every night....
>
> Phil,
>
> If every developer has a home directory on the backup server (or
> possibly same as CVS server), it would be really simple to have everyone
> do backups using rsync.  Then backups can be done manually or with cron
> with a pretty simple command.
>
> The man page for rsync even gives examples.  I'd probably recommend
> doing it over ssh.
>
> Cheers,
> Vic
>
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