[SATLUG] Backup Solutions?

[Sean Carolan]

> At this point about 100gb but it could grow to no telling what.  It will
> all be done locally over 100mbit ethernet.

Have you got your backup server built yet?  I recommend software or
hardware RAID5 or RAID1 with LVM, that way as your data pool grows you
can use lvresize to grow the partition if needbe.  Make sure you have
lots of swap on the server, BackupPC's rsync daemon likes to cache a
*lot* of data.  Here's a tutorial on how to set it up on CentOS:

http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Installing_BackupPC

Restoring files is as easy as point - click - restore.  BackupPC is
*not* however a "bare metal" recovery solution, although you can do a
full restore on Linux systems if you have OS discs handy.  I've even
converted a BackupPC backup tree into a VMware virtual machine, when
the physical box went belly up.