[KLUG Members] LAN backup solutions, anyone?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> If you are doing backups on a regular basis on a mixed Linux/Unix/Windows
> LAN, I'd like to see something about your experience and favorites tools,
> techniques, etc. What works best for you? Have any expensive and time-
> consuming failures? What do we get? What do we avoid?
> Thanks in advance to any/all participants...

We do our network backups using "star" which can tunnel data via an SSH
connection to a remote tape drive; just setup the keys and it can run as
a cron job.  *Unfortunately* that is the best solution we have found.
Other solutions are either (A) REALLY REALLY expensive [ like Arkeia ]
or (B) very hackish - they don't backup EA or other metadata, don't
support sparse files, etc...   It is simply shocking the completely
miserable state of backup/restore software.

You can script a backup of a remote winbloze machine using smbtar, but
again your losing file ownership, meta-data, EA, forks, etc...  But it
works OK for just backing up document files, but restoring something
under C:\WINNT will result in a first rate disaster.   For windows
workstations the best bet (for something you can actually restore) is to
use something like partimage and just image the *&^&*@^( partition
[ Windows backup/restore barely works with their own native tools, so
best to go a layer down the stack ].

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