Hi, I didn't have to take care of backups for quite a while, but now I'm looking for a suitable solution to backup a small office.
A long time ago I used Amanda to backup a single server to DDS-2 tape. This was in 1996 or so. The total volume to back up was about 2 GB. Now I need to backup a bit more: file server, OS X, 6 TB, growing 1 TB per year web sever, Linux, 500 GB 10 OSX clients, 5 TB total (probably less) 10 Windows clients, 5 TB Total (probably less) a few virtual machines running Windows and Linux, 1 TB total The volume of daily new data is usually rather small, a few hundred MB probably but can reach several gigabyte from time to time. I was thinking about using Amanda gain, but somehow I'm more interested int o Bacula right now, my previous Amanda experience is so minimal and total outdated that it's no reason to stick to Amanda. So, what do you think, is a small dedicated backup server, Bacula an a LTO drive a feasible solution? A few more questions: I it possible to buffer incremental backups on a rather small hard disk and write them to tape once a week or so? The Network is slow here, I'll not be able to reach the native write speed of a LTO drive, is this a problem? I think I remember some issues in this respect with the DDS drive, but that was a long time ago. Any recommendations on the server hardware? The budget is small unfortunately. Any other comments? Thanks Flo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
