Backup Server

[superbnerd]

As everyone knows, we should regularly backup our systems. What programs to you use and what kind of setup. I am not doing anything fancy. I have about eight PCs to backup. Also, would I be able to use a harddrive instead of expensive tapes?

Thanks

[carbo18]

I would recommend Amanda since it is a centralized solution therefore scalable.

Here's some info on Amanda
AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA users native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Recent versions can also use SAMBA to back up Microsoft Windows 95/NT hosts.

here is the link to it's home page http://amanda.sourceforge.net/

and here is how to backup to hd instead of tape http://amanda.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/191.html

Hope this helps :cool:

[blammo]

I might get shoo-ed out of here, but if you got a Windows box on your network, I'd try Acronis True Image. It supports Ext2, Ext3, and Linux SWAP. I have 4 boxes on my network, FC2, RH7.2, XP, and Win2000, and this program does a great job of backing up my partitions. Each box has a full disk image of all other boxes on my network, all on their own hidden partitions. Works a peach. Recovery is a snap too. Saved my butt a couple times.

[superbnerd]

thanks for the replies. the network is actually primarily Win PCs (I know, its tragic), but I want to use fedora as the backup server. I will probably try the amanda disk thing because it is already a part of fedora.
Thanks

[ghenry]

flexbackup is good too.

flexbackup.org

If you want a commercial one, I recommend BRU:

http://www.tolisgroup.com/

[superbnerd]

thanks, I'll check it out