[ale] Looking for backup solution.

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 07:00 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  I started to implement an rvm solution 
> but the documentation left me with a lot of questions.  I decided to go 
> back to bacula to see if I could figure it out one more time.  What 
> finally worked was running bacula-sd as root.  For some strange reason 
> running as bacula/tape quit working even though the disk volume that I 
> was writing to was owned by bacula/tape.  I even set the directory 
> permissions to 777 but no way would the sd write to it.  I suspect I 
> shouldn't be running sd as root, but it works and I'm happy with it.

I'm pretty sure running sd as root is a normal thing. It has to actually
touch the tape device in the same way that mt does. The only other way
would be to setup a tape user and make them a member of the disk group.
The disk group has rw on the actual nst* devices.
> 
> I thought I'd document the problem so someone else might find the 
> solution in the future.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Jim.
> 
> Jim wrote:
> > I tried bacula because it had everything I needed, however I couldn't 
> > get it to work the first time and then when I tried later it seemed to 
> > work after screwing with it too long.  Now all of a sudden it started 
> > failing. 
> >
> > So I'm going to trash it and try something else. 
> >
> > What I liked about bacula were the following features.
> >
> > * it does either full backups or incremental ones.
> > * it allows me to include/exclude directories/files.
> > * it runs from a single machine and dumps files from multiple systems, 
> > including Windows
> >
> > Rsync does the second, but unless you write some sort of script to 
> > schedule the target in different places, it  won't solve the first and 
> > as far as I know it doesn't do the third for windows.  I know you can 
> > run rsync on windows, but you can't schedule it from Linux unless you 
> > install some sort of ssh server on the windows box.  I'd rather have a 
> > complete package that runs everwhere if possible.
> >
> > I'm dumping to a dedicated 200 Gb drive on one of my Linux boxes.  I 
> > dont have a tape drive.
> >  
> > Dump is pretty quick, but it doesn't let me exclude the crap I really 
> > don't want to be bothered with among other limitations.
> >
> > So does anyone know of any reasonable solutions? Something that'll last 
> > more than a couple of months?  (bacula)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
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