Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don't want to spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier the software the better. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060418/d7cf847d/attachment.html>
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:21:04AM -0500, Chris Peikert enlightened us:> Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on > CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it > said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from > source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don't want to > spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier > the software the better. Thanks. >What, and how much, are you trying to back up? What storage device will you be backing up to (tape, dvd, disk)? There are several projects out there: amanda (my personal favorite), bacula, backuppc, and I'm sure a few others. More details on your expected usage can help folks point you in the better direction. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
Since you mentioned BackupExec, I use the backup exec linux agent and it works fine and ties into our centralized backup system for our windows,linux and unix systems. I used to use Mondo Archive (I was going to provide a link but their site is unavailable now...) to create automated cd restore images on a weekly basis. I could then quickly recover via ISO images and then would restore the incremental changes via backup exec. I am using another commercial product now though for the images. -greg> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:08 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > Well the idea is if I can get my CentOS box to communicate > with my Windows > 2003 network I was going to do a backup and put the backup > file on a windows > box where I would have Backup Exec put it on Tape. One step at a time > though. I haven't tackled trying to get the CentOS and > Windows to talk yet. > I have lots of reading to do on that subject yet. Thanks for > the list of > backup software. > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of Matt Hyclak > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:24 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:21:04AM -0500, Chris Peikert > enlightened us: > > Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software > that works on > > CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back > things up and it > > said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or > make one from > > source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I > don't want to > > spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am > newb so easier > > the software the better. Thanks. > > > > What, and how much, are you trying to back up? What storage > device will you > be backing up to (tape, dvd, disk)? > > There are several projects out there: amanda (my personal > favorite), bacula, > backuppc, and I'm sure a few others. More details on your > expected usage can > help folks point you in the better direction. > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
I saw these links at RedHat about active directory and such while looking for recompiling kernel questions http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2337.shtm http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2336.shtm It might point you to more specific articles that will help.> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:24 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > Thanks guys I will look into using Veritas as soon as I > figure out how to > get Windows and Linux to talk. > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of Barry Brimer > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:42 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Chris Peikert wrote: > > > Well the idea is if I can get my CentOS box to communicate > with my Windows > > 2003 network I was going to do a backup and put the backup file on a > windows > > box where I would have Backup Exec put it on Tape. One step > at a time > > though. I haven't tackled trying to get the CentOS and > Windows to talk > yet. > > I have lots of reading to do on that subject yet. Thanks > for the list of > > backup software. > > I have not looked into this for a few years, but at the time, Veritas > provided a free license for you to download/use a copy of their Unix > backup agent to run on Linux. Go to their support site. If > you can find > a Linux agent, go ahead and use that. If not, I believe I used their > generic Unix agent. This will allow you to backup your Linux > server to a > Backup Exec server directly. > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Something I forgot to mention about the backupexec agent. Depending on how restrictive your iptables firewall is (mine denies all in/outbound connections by default then I layer what is needed using fwbuilder) your going to need to make corrections for the agent to 'advertise' itself to the backupexec system and then create rules to allow the server to tell the agent to start the backup/restore. -greg> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:43 PM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > Thanks. I found on Symantecs website the download for the > Remote backup > piece of Veritas for Linux. Veritas gives a very easy to > follow instructions > on how to install it. I probably just have to create the > username Veritas > uses to backup with on the Linux box. Theory of operation > says that should > work. I bought Red Hat Enterprise 4 for Dummies and it > finally came in so > when I get chances I been reading it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:34 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > I saw these links at RedHat about active directory and such while > looking for recompiling kernel questions > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2337.shtm > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_71_2336.shtm > > It might point you to more specific articles that will help. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert > > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:24 AM > > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > > > Thanks guys I will look into using Veritas as soon as I > > figure out how to > > get Windows and Linux to talk. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > > Of Barry Brimer > > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:42 AM > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Backing up CentOS > > > > > > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Chris Peikert wrote: > > > > > Well the idea is if I can get my CentOS box to communicate > > with my Windows > > > 2003 network I was going to do a backup and put the > backup file on a > > windows > > > box where I would have Backup Exec put it on Tape. One step > > at a time > > > though. I haven't tackled trying to get the CentOS and > > Windows to talk > > yet. > > > I have lots of reading to do on that subject yet. Thanks > > for the list of > > > backup software. > > > > I have not looked into this for a few years, but at the > time, Veritas > > provided a free license for you to download/use a copy of > their Unix > > backup agent to run on Linux. Go to their support site. If > > you can find > > a Linux agent, go ahead and use that. If not, I believe I > used their > > generic Unix agent. This will allow you to backup your Linux > > server to a > > Backup Exec server directly. > > > > Barry > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 07:21 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:> Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works > on CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up > and it said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or > make one from source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and > I don?t want to spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW > I am newb so easier the software the better. Thanks. >I just built a package called backuppc for the testing CentOS repo. It requires a dedicated backup server that you run it on, and it can backup Linux/Unix/Mac machines via rsync or tar and Windows machines via samba. The RPMs are just the start and it is a complicated setup but it is a good solution for backups: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2006-April/002216.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060418/5efe5ac8/attachment.sig>
// shameless plug follows // My biggest frustrations with other systems (such as amanda) included non-graceful recovery from a backup failure, incomprehensible configuration, poor handling of limited disk space, non-versioned backups, and backup formats that made recovering individual backups painful. Some time ago, I got frustrated, and wrote a disk-to-disk, versioned backup system with PHP. Combined with Samba, it can back up Windows hosts by mounting them on the local filesystem. http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy/ It scratches my particular itch and works with virtually no further attention on my part, but lets me know if there's a problem. I hope you find this useful. -Ben On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:21, Chris Peikert wrote:> Can anyone suggest a good open source/free backup software that works on > CentOS? I was reading through the manuals on how to back things up and it > said do 1 of 2 things. Buy a 3rd party software packages or make one from > source. Well I have no clue how to do the 2nd option and I don't want to > spend any money so I figured I would as you gurus. BTW I am newb so easier > the software the better. Thanks. > >-- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:16, Johnny Hughes wrote:> I just built a package called backuppc for the testing CentOS repo. It > requires a dedicated backup server that you run it on, and it can backup > Linux/Unix/Mac machines via rsync or tar and Windows machines via samba.Actually a fast desktop machine with a big disk drive works pretty well. If the targets you are backing up are left on all the time backuppc will do all its work at night so you can use the machine for other things in the daytime. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
I think backuppc is probably what you are looking for. It seems very popular and very reputable. Oh, it might be a little brutal on the initial setup...I really don't know. I run my own snapshot style backups from my own scripts. You are welcome to then but in honesty, If I was not so heavy into my own backup scripts I would have went with what les mikesell suggested a good while back and that was backuppc. John Rose