[Gluster-users] Backup Strategy

[Mohit Anchlia]

Thanks! ZFS brings up another question about encrypting data. Is there
a feature in gluster that helps with encrypting data when it's written
to the file system?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Liam Slusser <lslusser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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