On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 07:18:31PM +0000, DLASALLE@barreau.qc.ca wrote: > Hello, > My organisation has been using Symantec Backup Exec for doing > the backups of our VPSes. Now our server died and we are having > troubles restoring the backup from the tape. Would anybody have > any experience with such setup? Maybe you could elaborate what the problems are? > If not, would you happen to have the best practices for > backing up Vserver VPSes on tape (which is hosted on a Windows > machine)? I wouldn't think of putting the tape drive on a windows machine, but to make that work you probably want to have an archive file per guest, like a .tar so that the windows platform only has to backup this single file (similar for incremental backups). > All that I am able to find are rsync and scp/nfs solutions. Any archive format should be fine, as long as it handles attributes and ownerships properly. For tape (on Unix/Linux) besides the obvious tar, there is also cpio and for ext2/3 dump/restore, which all can handle tape drives properly. HTH, Herbert > Lastly, yes, I am fully aware of all of the technical constraints. > Thanks, > [cid:image001.gif@01CE6688.98AF8C30] > Daniel LaSalle | Administrateur de systèmes et support aux usager(e)s > T : 514 954-3400, poste 3674 | Sans frais : 1 800 361-8495 > Maison du Barreau | 445, boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal QC H2Y 3T8 > dlasalle@barreau.qc.ca<mailto:dlasalle@barreau.qc.ca> | http://www.barreau.qc.ca<http://www.barreau.qc.ca/> > P Avant l'impression, pensez-y... Est-ce vraiment nécessaire?