[ydl-gen] backup solution

[Kai Staats]

> 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.

Oops. Just posted BRU as a suggestion :)


> 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).

Internal to TSS, we just write an rsync script customized to pull from each 
server to a single, off-site bu over VPN. Isn't that hard and works great.

kai