On 06/15 01:16 , Christopher wrote: > I have a WAN environment with the Main office having 5 or so servers, with > 80+ remote servers ranging anywhere from 16 gig scsi's to 400+ gig RAID > arrays, which are all connected back to us using OpenVPN. currently there > are tapes on each site, and we are using the free version of Arkiea to run > the backups.. I am considering moving to something that can more easily > handle a central catalog and do "bare metal" restores.. Does anyone have any > suggestions? I've spent hours pouring over fresmeat.net and sites like > linuxbackup.org but it is pretty overwhelming. BackupPC http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ uses rsync-over-ssh (among several options)so: - can backup over WAN links, only transferring the changes after the first time - goes nicely through firewalls (anywhere SSH can go) - can be secured very well (I use a special user with a command-limited DSA key + sudo, on the client side) also has a very nice web interface for restores; and authority to backup and restore certain systems can be delegated to certain users. bare-metal backups are doable by any admin who knows how to use tar + netcat/ssh to transfer a system from one box to another. individual-file backups can be done by users through the web interface. I don't enable the feature that lets you restore files directly back to the system they came from... partly for security reasons, and also because I want to make sure I *think* 2-3 times about what I'm doing before I clobber a file with a backup of that file. I encourage you to try it out, and join the mailing list. there's some good advice to be gained there, when it comes to scaling it out to large installations. (but I see no reason it couldn't handle 80 servers and a couple of TB of files backed up). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list