[olug] Backup solutions

[T. J. Brumfield]

It depends.

You can get a cheap NAS off-site and rsync nightly. You can also pay a
vendor to do nightly online backups.

You can buy a tape drive and rotate tons of tapes. You have several options
and different budget levels.

-- T. J.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> Since some of you deal with this stuff on a daily basis and I don't,
> I'll shoot you an email before I start digging around.
>
> If you had to find a backup solution for, say, 2-4 TB spread across a
> handful of linux-based NFS file servers, what would be the cheapest
> workable solution?  Or at least, where should I start looking for
> solutions?
>
> Our admin at work has convinced the boss that such a solution will cost
> six figures, and therefore won't increase our available disk space
> beyond what we can currently backup.  Some of our data disks routinely
> hover around 98%, and many developers are forced to store data (not
> code) on local desktops that aren't backed up.
>
> Now I'm off to look this up myself...
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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>     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
>       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins
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