Tapes, Slack, and all kinds of fun kookiness
At work I have two webservers running Linux. Both are currently running RH9, but the first is getting moved to SuSE this weekend. While I was upgrading the OS, I was also planning on installing a HP Colorado 5GB tape backup drive that I have laying around from an old Novell server at our offsite location that was taken out of service. Currently backup consists of a script I run on both machines weekly to tar up certain vital things, then I burn it to a DVD+RW.
Obviously it's time consuming, waiting for the scrip to tar up ~2GB of data on both machines, then tranferring it to my laptop - then burning it. So I'd love to be able to use that IDE tape drive to automate this entire process.
I've had zero experience with tape backups on Linux or Unix in general. I have gobs with Arcserve on Novell and various other stuff on IBM OS/400.
Then I got to thinking, I also have a spare P90 with 128MB of RAM, which just happens to be that de-commisioned Novell server, that I could use as a "backup" server. Hence, not loading up the webservers while I do this process, and using NFS.
Does anyone have any experience with this? My thought is just using NFS to mount the partitions I want to backup, run the backup script/utility and be done with it.
Oh, and the kicker is that the two webservers are on a different subnet behind a different firewall than the backup machine. Same local LAN, but we have our "office" and the servers seperated. No big deal, since I can NFS mount partitions between the two subnets already. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Ideally I'd like to use slack. Or, hell, OpenBSD. Those are the only two distros that I think would run decently and reliably on sparse hardware.
Any suggestions?
Obviously it's time consuming, waiting for the scrip to tar up ~2GB of data on both machines, then tranferring it to my laptop - then burning it. So I'd love to be able to use that IDE tape drive to automate this entire process.
I've had zero experience with tape backups on Linux or Unix in general. I have gobs with Arcserve on Novell and various other stuff on IBM OS/400.
Then I got to thinking, I also have a spare P90 with 128MB of RAM, which just happens to be that de-commisioned Novell server, that I could use as a "backup" server. Hence, not loading up the webservers while I do this process, and using NFS.
Does anyone have any experience with this? My thought is just using NFS to mount the partitions I want to backup, run the backup script/utility and be done with it.
Oh, and the kicker is that the two webservers are on a different subnet behind a different firewall than the backup machine. Same local LAN, but we have our "office" and the servers seperated. No big deal, since I can NFS mount partitions between the two subnets already. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Ideally I'd like to use slack. Or, hell, OpenBSD. Those are the only two distros that I think would run decently and reliably on sparse hardware.
Any suggestions?
