Backup solutions

[Scopehosts]

Hello all , 

 

Just want the views of all webmasters which backup solution are you preferring for your hosting services like

 

VPS

Dedicated Servers

Shared Hosting

 

Software or hardware Backup solutions? which would be your most preferable one?

 

[KuJoe]

What's the difference between a software and hardware backup solution? All backup solutions require hardware and software.

 

[Scopehosts]

Software Backup is placing server Data on World wide web if your Server is connected to world wide web, you will be allocated with Storage space to save all the files. 

Where Hardware Solution, Contains a Physical Storage device to transfer all the server data maintained in separate location.

 

Well, need views on which would be preferred most as best solution?

 

 

[KuJoe]

The best solution is to use both. Always have at least one set of local and off-site backups.

 

[Tyler]

We run off-site R1Soft backups and they take backups daily. So far I have been very pleased by the backup speeds and restoration speeds. 

If you're light on disk space, R1Soft is the best way to go since it uses deltas. It's also restorable from the end user's control panel (except MySQL databases - they're not restorable by the end user).

It's a combination of both hardware and software, as all backup software should be. Simply placing your backups on a flash drive is not going to yield the best results.

 

[Husky]

Bacula if you have the patience.

If not, rsnapshot works ok, can get a little slow with lots of files as it hardlinks a shit tonne.

 

[lbft]

rsnapshot can be made less painful on btrfs filesystems by using btrfs snapshots - this page has some details on how to do it. If you're not enough of a masochist to run btrfs and remotely competent, it'd be very simple to swap that for zfs snapshots I'm sure.

Snapshotting takes away a bunch of the thrashing that comes from copying and deleting that many hard links, especially if you're dealing with a source with a large number of files (although the rsync part will still cause it to thrash, obviously.)