OmniBack to backup operating system files on Linux

[Chen L]

Hello,
I have a RedHat AS2.1 server, patched to 2.4.9-e.27. Our sysadmin backups the server's operating system files (EXT3 file system) to tape weekly through OmniBack from another HP-UX 11.0 server.
Each time after the OS backup, lots of free memory on the Linux server is cached and not released quickly.
Has anyone use such method to backup Linux server and get any memory issue?
Usually, how to do a better Linux server backup?

Thanks,
Chen

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Omniback is a known heavy memory user. That does help it get the backups done faster.

You might try mondo for backups, but you'll need a local tape drive or something.

SEP

[Chen L]

Thank you Steven!

Do you know how Veritas performs on backing up Linux files?

Chen

[Jerome Henry]

Haven't tried veritas yet, but quite a lot of configuration difficulties are reported on it... and very few documentation either...

hth

J

[Huc_1]

There is also arkeia see
www.arkeia.com
But this not open source and to me very much like Legato, then there is amanda, that is open source lot's also a bit of work to get it configured..

have a look at www.amanda.org

Hope this helps!

J-P

[Chen L]

So glad to hear these options. Thank you Guys!

Chen