Backup soution to another server

[Robert Marcano]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:53, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Michael Mansour wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >>>I'm looking for an Opensource solution which can
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> >>allow
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> >>>me to backup various servers I have to another
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> >>server
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> >>>(the others servers disks) while allowing me to
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> >>store
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> >>>full and incremental backups, browse the files
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> >>that
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> >>>were backed up etc.
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> >>>Basically, a normal tape backup system but without
> >>>tapes while keeping the backed up files on the
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> >>other
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> >>>servers disks in a highly compressed format.
> >>>
> >>>Anyone know of anything like this out there?

You can try amanda, it has an internal driver that allow the simulation
of tape drives using filesystem folders. You will need to use the
provided scripts to simulate the tape changing process. Amanda is really
difficult to configure, but when running it is easy to use. With amanda
you can configure your source servers (amanda clients) to compress the
data before sending to the backup server or let that job to the backup
server (amanda server), and you can control the max bandwith used when
the transfer is being done

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