[Hidden-tech] backing up a FreeBSD server

[Chris Hoogendyk]

On 2/1/11 8:49 AM, Andrew Bellak wrote:
> Dear HT,
>
> Our saga continues.  Our tech dude says that JungleDisk online backup may not play well with a 
> FreeBSD server.
>
> We'd appreciate any help/feedback on this.

Amanda works with Amazon S3, and should install on FreeBSD. You can get the source here 
http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php and there are some comments about FreeBSD here 
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Installation/OS_Specific_Notes/Installing_Amanda_on_FreeBSD. If you 
want, you can set it up to back up all your machines, and it has a major advantage with the Amanda 
planner and the configurability of dump cycles and disk list entries. Rather than having to do all 
the fulls at once and then trickle along with incrementals until the next set of fulls, it will 
automatically distribute load over as many days as you configure to minimize the load on any given 
day. You can also selectively do only the data that matters rather than the whole system if you are 
worried about bandwidth out to S3. You do need to be a bit of a sysadmin, but if you are running a 
FreeBSD server, I sort of assume you are.


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