[Techtalk] backup suggestions needed

[caitlynmaire at earthlink.net]

HI, Jen,

How about amanda?  We use it for a much larger enterprise backup, but a
single client and a server should do the job for you.  Red Hat provides
rpms, but for 2.4.2p2  2.4.3 rpms fo RH 8.0 are on the
ftp://ftp.colorado-research.com site.  For any other distro you'll have
to build from source, which isn't terrible.  I do it for all the Solaris
boxen here.

Basic info is at http://www.amanda.org
Step-by-step instructions are at:
http://www.frankenlinux.com/guides/amandaintro.html

>From a security standpoint, amanda runs as an xinetd service.

All the best,
Caity

> 
> I have one DLT drive, and 2 db servers that require backup.
> There is not enough diskspace on either to make a local copy of all
> the files that require backup (which i would then backup with a single
> 'dump' if life were easy)
> 
> Can anyone suggest the  best way to do this? I've been searching for
> the better part of today for a way to rsync to a tape drive-but no
> luck. I would very,very much like to avoid using .rhosts,nfs, or any
> remote mounting even on a private net-but so far that seems like the
> way to go.
> 
> I'd appreciate some alternative suggestions.