[ydl-gen] backup solution

[Andrew Zschetzsche]

I'm going to mention Dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) since it does 
incremental backups, can burn right to disk with cdrtools, can restore 
specific files or directories, and has a KDE front-end.  However, it's 
likely not "supported", and for me personally, it's ability to recover 
an entire filesystem is untested.

What kind of machine are you running (server / desktop?) and what kind 
of backup you want (automatic / manual, and network / burn to optical / 
file recovery?)  Amanda or rsnapshot would be good solutions for 
automatic server backups, but I would rather do backups manually on my 
desktop (and a GUI is always nice.)  I'm using Dar on my server via SSH, 
but that's because I can tell it to ignore the directory that the 
backups are in, and also due to firewall restrictions, with makes a 
network backup impossible.  I then download the backups to another 
machine as a FTP client.

I'm also a bit lost at the term of "supported."  Do you want something 
that is sanctioned by TerraSoft Solutions?  I don't think they have 
chosen anything.  Does it need to come packaged with YDL?  I don't think 
that any of the mentioned software is available from a YDL mirror.

This reminds me, I should run a backup again...

--Andy Z.

> 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
>
>


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