Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Marek Isalski
Kilian Krause writes: maybe i can throw in the reference to the "dnstracer" tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the results you expected to have).. Another tool I find incredibly useful is DNS Bajaj: http://www.zonecut

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi, > dig @a.root-servers.net ns > > You'll get back the response or you'll get a referral to the next level > down... maybe i can throw in the reference to the "dnstracer" tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the resu

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 26, 2004, at 10:47 PM, Nate Duehr wrote: On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely to happen). If however you desire to make sure y

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Jason Lim
> We have: > ns1.lctc.org > ns2.lctc.org > > ns2.lctc.org is (aparently) down. It is in a locked and alarmed building. > > How is this effecting users of our DNS? This shouldn't affect them... that is the idea of having a minimum of 2 DNS servers, so that in the event one failed, the other will co

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-26 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Dan, until your ns1 goes down too, things should go fine. If you think, you need to worry, watch the load on ns1. If that goes alarmingly up, then things start going wrong (which is *very* unlikely to happen). If however you desire to make sure your DNS is safe and accessible even in case ns2 i

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Duncan Robertson
I have been using Veritas Netbackup under Solaris (server) with solaris, NT and Linux clients at work and it is a large, complex, and difficult to set up package, with quirks. However it works extremely well for very large setups once setup the overhead is worth it (tape management, restore conveni

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Duncan Robertson
I have been using Veritas Netbackup under Solaris (server) with solaris, NT and Linux clients at work and it is a large, complex, and difficult to set up package, with quirks. However it works extremely well for very large setups once setup the overhead is worth it (tape management, restore conveni

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Lucas Albers
How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? The port it locked to a particular backup server... So only that ip address can connect to that port. we use legato to backup: suse 8x,redhat 6x,7x clients,windows nt2k,xpwin2k clients. sgi Works great!, we love it. Have

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Lucas Albers
How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? The port it locked to a particular backup server... So only that ip address can connect to that port. we use legato to backup: suse 8x,redhat 6x,7x clients,windows nt2k,xpwin2k clients. sgi Works great!, we love it. Have

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
NetVault is also "decent" software and generally a lot cheaper than some of the more well-knowns. http://www.bakbone.com/products/backup_and_restore/ Personally I didn't make the decision to use it at one employer, but it worked fine and was cross-platform, etc. Quite flexible also. Install on

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
NetVault is also "decent" software and generally a lot cheaper than some of the more well-knowns. http://www.bakbone.com/products/backup_and_restore/ Personally I didn't make the decision to use it at one employer, but it worked fine and was cross-platform, etc. Quite flexible also. Install o

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Lim
From: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html try the "cut" command. Sounds like it does just what you want. -J - Original Message - From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 5:06 PM Subject: Re: backup script

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Konstantin Kostadinov
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:06:42 +0200 Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:29, Craig Schneider wrote: > > > Just battling to use awk to extract the last for collumns. > > > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root [ 234 Mar 10 06:38 backup ] > > > > Any h

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:29, Craig Schneider wrote: > Just battling to use awk to extract the last for collumns. > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root [ 234 Mar 10 06:38 backup ] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Shell scripting is definitely > not one of my strong points. http:

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Jason Lim
From: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/textproc.html try the "cut" command. Sounds like it does just what you want. -J - Original Message - From: "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 5:06 PM S

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Konstantin Kostadinov
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:06:42 +0200 Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:29, Craig Schneider wrote: > > > Just battling to use awk to extract the last for collumns. > > > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root [ 234 Mar 10 06:38 backup ] > > > > Any h

Re: backup script

2004-03-10 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:29, Craig Schneider wrote: > Just battling to use awk to extract the last for collumns. > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root [ 234 Mar 10 06:38 backup ] > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Shell scripting is definitely > not one of my strong points. http:

Re: backup

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Dec 18, 2002 at 01:23:32AM +, the boisterous Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > Is there a Amanda-Client for msdos, wfw311 and Win95 ? > Have the three OS (on three different Machines) for developement... amanda backups smb clients. Maybe this document helps you: h

Re: backup

2002-12-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 17:57 2002-12-16 +0100 hat Thomas Krennwallner geschrieben: > >Hi! > >On Mon Dec 16, 2002 at 05:36:25PM +0100, the boisterous >Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote to me: >> Is there any DFSG free software that can do what Legato does? If so what is >> it? > >I'm using Amanda as ne

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). I've asked a colleague > > who's into backups (and who has been using Legato for years) to investigate > > Amanda and write a re

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:29:09PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). I've asked a colleague > who's into backups (and who has been using Legato for years) to investigate > Amanda and write a report comparing them. Amanda's #1 sin is a h

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
Bart-Jan Vrielink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:50, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:36, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > > > all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Torbjorn Pettersson
"C. R. Oldham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). > > I'm afraid the reason everyone is recommending Amanda is because that's > all there is. > > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > all our servers into th

Re: backup

2002-12-17 Thread Ramin Motakef
Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > afbackup is one solution that I've been interested in trying it but haven't > thus far, it's features are similar to amanda I would say ... anyone here > tried it? > > Thanks > Yes, i use afbackup for backup of 4 linux-servers to a single DDS3 Tape

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 16, 2002 11:57 am, the fabulous Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > wrote to me: > > Is there any DFSG free software that can do what Legato does? If so what > > is it? > > I'm using Amanda as network backup solution and I like it very much. I also use amanda in several network installation

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Mon Dec 16, 2002 at 07:50:01PM +0100, the boisterous Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > I'm only interested in backing up Linux and Solaris servers (and Solaris is > optional) so lack of cross platform support is not a problem. > > How difficult is the scripting to change tapes?

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 19:50, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:36, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > > all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network > > (Linux, Win2000 with Exchange, Oracle). My experi

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:36, C. R. Oldham wrote: > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network > (Linux, Win2000 with Exchange, Oracle). My experience with Amanda is > that it works pretty well if you > a

RE: backup

2002-12-16 Thread C. R. Oldham
Apologies, I somehow punched "send" before I was done with my previous post. > Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). I'm afraid the reason everyone is recommending Amanda is because that's all there is. We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up all

RE: backup

2002-12-16 Thread C. R. Oldham
> Amanda sounds promising (everyone is recommending it). I'm afraid the reason everyone is recommending Amanda is because that's all there is. We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network (Linux, Win2000

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:57, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > On Mon Dec 16, 2002 at 05:36:25PM +0100, the boisterous > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote to me: > > Is there any DFSG free software that can do what Legato does? If so what > > is it? > > I'm using Amanda as network backup soluti

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread jernej horvat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 December 2002 17:57, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > I'm using Amanda as network backup solution and I like it very much. amanda is ok, but making it work trough firewalls is p.i.t.a. :-/ - -- "We should not be trying to use technical sol

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Erik Wenzel
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:36:25PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-backup.html > The above URL recommends "Legato Networker" and "HP Omniback". However Legato > is no longer free for Linux, if you use the latest version then you >

Re: backup

2002-12-16 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Dec 16, 2002 at 05:36:25PM +0100, the boisterous Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to me: > Is there any DFSG free software that can do what Legato does? If so what is > it? I'm using Amanda as network backup solution and I like it very much. I don't know Legato. Why is it a go

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mickeler
#2 (vrrp) is a subset of #3 (LVS / keepalived / vrrp ) I have several boxes configured as master / backup routers with the VRRP component of keepalived. You just need to configure keepalived to not use LVS and then you have a clean and simple VRRP install. On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Jeremy Zawodny wr

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Steve Mickeler wrote: > > Theres a couple of ways you can do this. > > 1) round robin dns : 2 servers with their own IP's, each serving up the > website. If one goes down, you still get a 50% success rate. > > 2) VRRP via keepalived - http://www.keepali

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Mickeler
Theres a couple of ways you can do this. 1) round robin dns : 2 servers with their own IP's, each serving up the website. If one goes down, you still get a 50% success rate. 2) VRRP via keepalived - http://www.keepalived.org/ : 2 servers, 1 real floating IP that is bound to the active server. I

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Thing
cluster it, when one box goes down, its backup takes up that IP Thing On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can anyone pls tell me how to setup a Backup Web Server..meaning if the > primary Web Server fails, it will automatically go to a seperate Web > Server. > > ex. > >

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Thing
cluster it Thing On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can anyone pls tell me how to setup a Backup Web Server..meaning if the > primary Web Server fails, it will automatically go to a seperate Web > Server. > > ex. > > Home User - www.abc.com > > Server U

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Jason Lim
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Katim S. Touray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Backup Web Server Haha I wonder why you choose to send

Re: Backup Web Server

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Billson
Rizal, Check out HA (High Availability) http://linux-ha.org Pete -- http://www.elbnet.com ELB Internet Service, Inc. Web Design, Computer Consulting, Internet Hosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Can anyone pls tell me how to setup a Backup Web Server..meaning if the > primary Web Server

Re: Backup-request

2001-06-07 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, I work at a Web/Dedicated Server hosting company in Hong Kong. A few companies in the USA have sent us servers for colocation in Hong Kong for a whole number of reasons (true redunancy/backup, fast connections to Asia, etc.), but I suppose that avoiding PSI's possible network meltdown would b

Re: Backup-request

2001-06-05 Thread Jason Lim
Hi, I work at a Web/Dedicated Server hosting company in Hong Kong. A few companies in the USA have sent us servers for colocation in Hong Kong for a whole number of reasons (true redunancy/backup, fast connections to Asia, etc.), but I suppose that avoiding PSI's possible network meltdown would

Re: Backup Programs

2001-04-05 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:45:33AM +1000, Tim Kent wrote: > I am using a DDS3 tape drive and was just wanting to know what you all use > for backups. Do you write your own scripts or use a frontend/utility/program > to help out? I use amanda, works great, it's packaged too. Can do automatic, increm

Re: Backup Programs

2001-04-05 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:45:33AM +1000, Tim Kent wrote: > I am using a DDS3 tape drive and was just wanting to know what you all use > for backups. Do you write your own scripts or use a frontend/utility/program > to help out? I use amanda, works great, it's packaged too. Can do automatic, incre

Re: Backup on cd-s

2000-04-28 Thread Smoerk
>Problem is - create bootable CD, that contains all tools >neccesery to repair broken system (mkfs, fdisk, vi, tar, gzip >etc, etc) , and that contains data track >with all backuped files ( >as usr.tar.gz home.tar.gz root.tar.gz and all). There is tool announced at freshmeat today, which does e

Re: Backup on cd-s

2000-04-27 Thread Michael W. Shaffer
Well, this is not exactly what you are asking about, but I have built a number of Debian systems which run entirely from bootable floppies and CDs. I compiled a very short FAQ about the bootable CD based Linux system: http://equusasinus.com/lxa/faq.html as well as more general information along w