[Techtalk] multiple server backup

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:49, Hemingway, Neil wrote:
> I've heard very good things about Amanda (www.amanda.org)

I second that -- it's a bit of a learning curve to get acquainted with
it, but it's definitely the tool to use to backup multiple machines over
a network.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:tech at murrain.net]
> Sent: 29 April 2002 16:39
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [Techtalk] multiple server backup
> 
> 
> What's the best way to do backup of multiple servers (in this case, a 
> mail/news server and a web server)? The web server has the tape drive.
[...]
> Suggestions? Something I'm missing? I've heard of NFS over ssh. Does it 
> work? Is it hard to set up? Does it take care of the security issues of NFS?

What security issues are you referring to? Do you mean that it isn't
encrypted or authenticated? Or is reliability your concern?

Nils
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