[oclug] Dumb questions about backups

[Philippe Le Bel]

Hi,

Why don't you set up NIS?  That way, your users won't require different
passwords for the different servers.

You've got a few other option for backing up client machines remotely.
Maybe one of the products listed at the URL below can help.

http://www.firstlinux.com/product/Backup/

Most of these probably aren't cheap.   Nevertheless, you should be able to
find one which suits your needs.  I haven't used any of these myself, so I
can't comment on their performance.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Labonte" <plabonte at home.com>
To: <oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 03:47
Subject: Re: [oclug] Dumb questions about backups


> 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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