[HECnet] A2RTR downtime

[Mark Wickens]

Having used it for years in 'trial mode' I forked up for a copy of
https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux/ Image for Linux.
It does great whole disk images. I could probably have found free software,
or done dd compressed dumps etc, but having tried a whole heap of things
this just did what I needed without being a PITA at any point in the
process.

Mark.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 at 16:53, Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com> wrote:

> 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.  Déjà 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
>
>
>

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