I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that
means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to
this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu).
Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And
/or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible
how?
Please help, i am not good enough on centos.
regards,
Damas
--
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door".
Says,
Makweba Sir
Greetings, On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Damas Ally <damastz at gmail.com> wrote:> I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that > means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to > this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). > Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And > /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible > how? > Please help, i am not good enough on centos. > regards, > Damas > > -- > "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door".stock "amanda" srever and client should be your friend. I have not tried bakuppc thought I have heard good things about it. HTH -- Regards, Rajagopal
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Ally <damastz at gmail.com> wrote:> I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that > means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to > this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). > Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And > /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible > how? > Please help, i am not good enough on centos.Backuppc is about as good as it gets for online backups. It is packaged in EPEL but you can find docs and mail list info at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. If you want tape backups, look at amanda or bacula. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
I'd recommend that you look at bacula. I've used many backup systems (both commercial and open source) over the years and bacula is by far the best of them overall, is under active development, robust, scalable, and has optional commercial support if needed. For CentOS 5.x, there are not-the-most-recent-version RPMs available from the bacula site or you can build from source. As of RHEL6/CentOS6, bacula comes with the base operating system (as usual, also not the most recent version but quite a bit newer than the 5.x RPMs). The bacula *server(s)* must run on a UNIX machine. Bacula clients are available for many different UNIX variants as well as Mac and Windows. There is a learning curve for setting it up but if you've ever used any other enterprise-grade backup product it shouldn't be overwhelming. <http://www.bacula.org> Devin
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:43 +0300, Damas Ally wrote:> I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, that > means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to > this server from various users (clients using windows machine and ubuntu). > Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? And > /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if possible > how?Yes, CentOS will integration with AD. Lots of documentation on that is available. If you are backing up to disk be sure to take a look at SDFS <http://www.opendedup.org/> for your backend 'filessystem'. Block level duplication can be a *HUGE* win.