[Gluster-users] Backup Strategy

[Liam Slusser]

Netbackup is great and can probably backup directly from a glusterFS
client mount, however, the license and software cost for a few clients
and one server/media server is nearly $50k.  Not exactly cheap.  Id
look into Amanda backup if I was on a budget and wanted to backup to
tape.

Another option is to just do rsync your gluster cluster to a Sun
Solaris server with a ZFS partition.  Then you can do nightly zfs
snapshots of your data (snapshots only save what changes so it uses
very little space).

liam

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! have you heard of netbackup? Our co. already has license for
> it. I think it can be used.
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I read the docs. But here you go :
>>
>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backuppc+howto
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks! Is there a short blog or steps that I can look at.
>>> documentaion looks overwhelming at first look :)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> for the amount of features that you get with backuppc, it's worth the
>>>> fairly painless setup. Btw, we've found that it's better/faster to use
>>>> tar via backuppc (it supports rsync as well) to do the backups rather
>>>> than rsync in backuppc. Rsync can be really slow if you have
>>>> thousands/millions of files.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Is there a problem with using just rsync vs backupcc? I need to read
>>>>> about backupcc and how easy it is to setup.
>>>>
>>>
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