[ale] Backups (What are you using?)

[Brian Whigham]

We have a couple dozen servers on it.  It works pretty well.  We need to
upgrade.  We're still using stunnels, which add complexity.  But, we're
actually trying to consolidate backups to netbackup.  One thing we've
encountered is silent failures.  One host will hang up and cause all backups
to fail.  We don't get a failure email. It may be a misconfiguration on our
part, though.

For bacula, we backup directly to an HP MSL5000 with LTO2 tapes.

I admit it's saved me as recently as two weeks ago.  I've never heard
anything bad about it.

I think it should scale to your environment. And, the price is right :)

Brian

2009/1/26 Brandon Colbert <colbert.brandon at gmail.com>

> Great I know who to bug for help. LOL The environment is 80+ servers. I am
> ordering the attachable storage unit this week: 12TB.
>
> I like Bacula so far!
>
> That's Jim!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 4+ years on Bacula!! I have a 10 tape carousel from VXA with a VXA2
>> drive. Daily backups of 8 machines. Restore process has been put to
>> use on more than one occasion including the director machine (yikes!
>> that was scarey!!) from bare metal. It Just Works (tm).
>>
>> Amanda is nice but doesn't scale as well as bacula. The docs for
>> bacula are outstanding. Bacula is a command line version of the big
>> commercial tools like Legato and HP Omniback.
>>
>> The new features that support encrypted transport tunnel and encrypted
>> data on the tape make road warrior backups safe and reliable. It can
>> also make for a backup and restore business for those with fat pipe on
>> burst and NAS/tape storage hardware.
>>
>> 2009/1/26 Brandon Colbert <colbert.brandon at gmail.com>:
>> > All,
>> >
>> > Today I proposed a new backup solution using Bacula. Does anyone have
>> Bacula
>> > deployed in their environment? I just wanted to see what everyone else
>> is
>> > using.
>> >
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