[SunHELP] looking for backup ideas

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>I currently have a mix of linux boxes and Solaris boxes.
>I'm eyeing the setup that our Novell administrator has here.  He's got a 
>few backup servers which go out and backup other servers each night.  He's 
>using ArcServe.
>Is there some product that runs on either Solaris or linux that can be used 
>to backup other boxes?  I'd like the "backup" server to run the show, not 
>have the remote servers tar to the backup servers tape drive.  I don't want 
>to have to worry about having 2 machines trying to tar to the drive at the 
>same time.

I've had some experience of Legato Networker, (or whatever they're calling this
now), it's not bad. I'm now using Tivoli Storage Manager here, this is very 
good,
but quite horrifically expensive potentially. I hear some good reports about 
Veritas
Netbackup as well. These are all 'big iron' solutions.

On the cheaper side have a look at "amanda" or Arkeia (www.arkeia.com). I like 
the
look of Arkeia since if all you want to do is test it on a server plus two 
clients, (all got
to be Linux), then the license is free. The 'net a buzzing with amanda users 
though.

One thing that occurs to me is that if your tar-chives are good enough, why not 
just
get the 'server' to pull these from the clients using a quick and dirty 
cron-able script?
All your boxes are Unix's so a solution based on rsh/ssh/etc should be 
relatively
easy to implement. (and cheap too!)

Regards

Bob Cross.
(writing for himself not his employer).


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