On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 15:54 -0700, Ian McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > This may be a little off topic (not directly related to FC) but I do need a > little advice for my FC server. > > I have been searching for a backup method for my personal server (files, > mysql). As I am currently a student, and cannot afford a tape backup system > I would like to backup to the DVD-R / RW drive I have in my server. > > Is this a feasible idea? I have seen that there is at least one commercial > product that will backup to optical media, but unfortunately I have to slosh > through multiple pages of people wanting to copy DVDs (for archival purposes > of course) on their Linux systems just to find a nibble or two. Is there > anything available through yum or apt already for FC? Not that I am aware of, though there might be something in Dag and friends. This is something I started thinking about just the other day as well - my current backup scheme is all manual, and could be better. There are a couple different project I have started to look at, though I've tested none. I hope to find a Free OSS solution that works either standalone (server and client on same host) or network (server and and several clients) that could be packaged for Extras. I want one that does tape but can also do backup to DVD-R, and preferable one that that also has clients for Windows/OS X (though that's not *quite* as important to me) I've tested none so I can't recommend one, but I definitely want to watch this thread. Amanda seems to be the standard for a long time now, but I believe it only works with tape drives (is it possible to use a loopback device as tape drive and then burn the image??) Anyway - I think this is something of interest not only to Fedora, but to RHEL as well - if there is a good Free OSS server/client pair.
