<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ryan Pugatch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpug@linux.com">rpug@linux.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi everyone,<br>
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Trying to gather some info as I am working on rearchitecting our backup<br>
solution.<br>
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Would be great to hear:<br>
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What backup solution do you use?<br>
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How much data are you backing up?<br>
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Are you sending the data off site? How? Disk, tape?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>I work for a small engineering firm so our data needs aren't that
insane. We have about 500GB of active data that we backup. The rest
are closed jobs that have been archived which I'll touch on how we
handle that as well.<br><br>
We have two levels of backups both are using rsnapshot. The first level
is our onsite backups where we do a snapshot every other hour during
normal business hours to a second onsite server. We keep 30 days of
these snapshots. This is primarily for the times where someone
accidentally deletes or over writes a file. But this server is also
setup with some scripts to reconfigure itself to step in for our main
file server should there be a major hardware issue where the redundancy
can't deal with.<br>
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The second level of backups is our nightly offsite snapshot, also using rsnapshot. This is
done via a VPN tunnel to one of the owner's house where he has a server
set up in his basement. We keep 365 nightly snapshots on this server.
This server is also setup with scripts to replace our main server as part of our disaster recovery plan in the
case of fire or other act of God which takes down our primary site.<br>
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Then we have long term archival which is not included in the
snapshots. This is handled by a Perl script that we wrote which scans
our job folders once a week for any jobs that are marked as closed in our ERP and the files haven't been modified in 90 days. When these two conditions
are met the project is compressed and moved to an archive volume on the
onsite backup server which is then replicated to the offsite server using rsync.<br>
--<br>
David <br></div></div>