[ale] Training in Opensource Backups?

[Preston]

Did anything ever materialize about this? If not, here's a bump to let
y'all know I would still be interested in attending.

Preston

On 1/21/2016 9:04 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> That could work. Can be done with a beefy laptop with multiple VMs and
> using hard drive backups instead of tape.
> 
> I do have some older tape libraries that could be pressed into service.
> SCSI cards are scarce in my shop. Trying to obtain an outdated LTO3 rig now.
> 
> Or could use 2 towers and library for semi hands on setups.
> 
> Late March at the earliest. Will need to filter attendees for at least
> junior admin skills. Not a topic for beginners without vim basics and
> filesystems and some regex fu. Need to limit to under 10.
> 
> On Jan 21, 2016 9:52 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey Jim,
> 
>     Would a Saturday morning 4 hr session be enough for backula
>     training?  I'd be
>     very interested in something like this, since I've never gotten it
>     working.
>     We'd want some minimum committed people before bothering.
> 
>     I can offer 2+ hr rdiff-backup hands-on training. Just need a place
>     to do it
>     where folks can either do it on their own local systems or connect
>     to one of
>     their remote systems and do it there. Really best if 2 systems
>     connected by ssh
>     already up and working so the rdiff-backup can use a "pull" backup
>     technique.
>     This is usually more secure than a "push" method.  I can add
>     mysql/mariaDB/postgresql backups to this for non-huge DBs too. I'd
>     do this if at
>     least 5 people with the required prerequisite skills committed - 10
>     is probably
>     too many for something like this.
> 
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