Re: [SAGE] Backup for small development network

[Paul Lussier <p.lussier@comcast.net>]

Hi Jason,

Jason Antman <jason@jasonantman.com> writes:

> So, I'm looking for a real backup solution. I looked into Amanda, but
> didn't particularly care for it. I thought I'd settled on Bacula, but
> after 8 hours of hacking config files, it seems like far too high a
> level of complexity for a dozen machines with most storage to networked
> disks, and just weekly tape runs to the same few tapes (and no autoloader).

I'm curious what you didn't like about Amanda?  It's fairly simple to
set up, extremely configurable and flexible, and works with most every
OS out there.  The amanda-users mailing list is a great resource, and
very helpful, and there are several on this list who can help out as
well.

That being said, if you only care about making sure changes you make
are backed up, a fairly simple solution could be to put everything you
care about under a centralized revision control system (cvs, svn,
perforce, bitkeeper, etc.) and just back up the central repository.

Doing this is very simple and straightforward, and revision control is
something you really, really want to do anyway :)

-- 
Seeya,
Paul