[ydl-gen] backup solution

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Nick!

I believe what I have to share fits into the "or something" category.  I
didn't attempt to address your original query as you then appeared to
restrict your interest to RAID.  I thought of BRU but my own research to
their site found that they don't even support Red Hat (running as a
server), let alone YDL.  

What I came up with was a simple search using yum to determine what is
available via the two URL's my yum.conf point to.  Of course, if I added
more mirrors it is quite possible that some other options may be found
by yum.  

$ sudo yum search *backup*

yum will report a brief description as well as whether the package is
available, installed etc.

As I said, this may fit into the "or something" category.  When I
executed the above the installed packages were pax, kdeadmin, rmt, and
dump.  I'm sure your yum.conf points to several mirrors so your listing
should be more extensive.  

It is quite possible you were already aware of the above.  Well, no harm
done.

Best wishes...


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 13:06 -0500, Nick Jones wrote:
> Does a backup solution exist for Yellow Dog that is reliable.  Please
> don't mention BRU (unreliable), Atempo (not supported), Netvault (not
> supported), or other non-supported backup solutions.
> 
> I've heard backula is good, but it is open source and for guaranteed
> disaster recovery I just find it hard to put faith in it (the motto is
> "it comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers",
> ummm doesn't sound too safe :)  Joking aside,  anybody with good
> experiences with recovering a backup when your RAID goes or something?
> 
> I'm guessing most people running YDL run their backups from a separate
> dedicated box with a more common os/architecture (x86 with Linux or
> Windows).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick
> 
>