[K12OSN] NAS Backup

[Bert Rolston]

Hi Kevin,

I'm a bit rusty on this, but from memory Novell E-Directory supports
NFS.

If you aren't worried about the NDS tree then any of the previous
methods would back up the data.

NDS is a breeze to set up in comparison to LDAP, mainly because Novell
has done the hard work for the user.

An Rsync based solution would probably be the most efficient. Amanda
looks like a very capable performer, even better than some commercial
products.

I suggest you identify exactly what you want to do (even diagramming
data flow paths) and then look at what is available. Will you be backing
up across WAN links? Average amount of data to backup daily? Choose the
product that will suit your needs.

Pretty vague I know, but when you figure out the WHAT, HOW of the back
up, then you will know WHICH product is most suitable.

Cheers,
Bert



On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 03:19, Kevin Christensen wrote:
> Hi Bert,
> We are running 5.1 right now but are upgrading to 6.5 this summer. We
> are mainly concerned about backing up user data, if we have to we would
> just rebuild the server from scratch but the data would be safe. We are
> even willing to buy a commercial product that we could get support for.
> Is there any out there that will do this back up from Novell to Linux? I
> would really like to get this to work, the more the big bosses see Linux
> the more they want to use it. They are toying with the idea of making
> two of our brand new elementary schools pure Linux terminal.
> 
> Thanks everybody for all your advice it is very much appreciated!
> Kevin   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Bert Rolston
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:31 PM
> To: K12OSN
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] NAS Backup
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> What version of Netware.
> 
> The solutions mentioned would back up your data. 
> 
> Assuming you are using NW 4.xx or greater, what about NDS / E-directory?
> Believe me, even a single server, 500 NDS schema is a pain to rebuild by
> hand. Personal experience from many moons ago taught me this one.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bert
> 
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 06:48, Kevin Christensen wrote:
> > I will look at all these links, one thing I forgot to mention is they
> > are Novell servers. But I thought I could mount the server or some
> > thing. Any ideas?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k12osn-admin at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin at redhat.com] On
> Behalf
> > Of Grant McInnes
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:49 AM
> > To: k12osn at redhat.com
> > Subject: [K12OSN] NAS Backup
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Does any one know of any good software to run a Linux NAS backup? I
> > want
> > > it to pull from multiple servers and save the files on the NAS.
> > >  
> > > Thanks guys
> > > Kevin
> > > 
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > You could also try rdiff-backup http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/
> which
> > has the advantage that its included in the K12 distro.
> > 
> > Uses the rsync library to do snapshots, and a breeze to set up.
> > 
> > -g
> > 
> > 
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