18 Oct
2021
18 Oct
'21
5:53 p.m.
On Oct 17, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com>
wrote:
Fourth (and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way. My Tops-20 systems are backed up on
a quarterly basis and those backups compressed and moved to alternate storage. However, I
have never backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD media, some
of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel uncomfortable out it.
Were you aware of any winning backup solutions? I can restore Tops-20 to bare metal, but
I really don't remember how to do this for Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at
one point). So I starting looking. D?j? Dup looks like it won't quite do what I
need, but since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that.
Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup. This was probably more true in the
days where a hardware RAID controller error introduced a single point of failure; it may
still be true for a software RAID.
Take a look at Veeam, specifically the ?Community Edition?. You should also be able to
take a look at the "Veeam Agent for Linux?, as you can simply run it on your Linux
box, and point it at an NFS share or USB disk. The community edition of Veeam Backup and
Recovery allows you to backup 10 Physical or Virtual systems for free. It?s only downside
is that it needs to run on Windows.
I do nightly Veeam backups of all the VMware VM?s that run my virtual DEC systems. This
has saved me in at least one case.
Bare metal Veeam restores are an option, since you asked about ?Bare Metal?, but that?s
something I?ve not tested.
Zane