League of Professional System Administrators - Backup

divinsa backup

doug — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:57:59 -0800

Short Description:
secure, offsite backups

Release Date:
Wed, 2004-03-17 21:00

Status:
Mature

Long Description:

Divinsa is a commercial company specializing in secure, offsite, multi-location backups using your existing Internet connection. Data is encrypted using various encryption technologies such as AES and 448 bit blowfish.
The divinsa FAQ is available at http://divinsa.com/faqs.htm

Divinsa appears to cater particularly to small business with credit card automatic charging options.

mtx

doug — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:21:34 -0700

Short Description:
media changer tools

Home Page:
sourceforge.net/projects/mtx

Release Date:
Sat, 2001-02-24 06:00

Status:
Mature

Long Description:

These tools are used to view information about, and to control, Media Changer devices such as Tape and DVD/CD libraries. Move tapes from slot to slot, eject them, control your robot.

Zmanda

wdlowry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:01:30 -0700

Short Description:
Open source backup

Home Page:
zmanda.com

Release Date:
Sat, 2006-10-28 19:00

Status:
Active

Long Description:

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

* Schedule full and incremental logical or raw backups of your MySQL database
* Centralized backup management
* Perform backup that is the best match for your storage engine and your MySQL configuration
* Get e-mail notification about status of your backups
* Monitor and obtain reports about your backups (including RSS feeds)
* Verify your backup images
* Compress and encrypt your backup images
* Implement Site or Application specific backup policies
* Recover database easily to any point in time or to any particular database event
* Custom plugins to tailor MySQL backups to your environment

DIBS

doug — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:47:00 -0700

Short Description:
Distributed Internet Backup System - backups should be cheap

Home Page:
web.mit.edu/~emin/www/source_code/dibs/index.html

Release Date:
Wed, 2006-11-08 12:00

Status:
Active

Long Description:

Since disk drives are cheap, backup should be cheap too. Of course it does not help to mirror your data by adding more disks to your own computer because a virus, fire, flood, power surge, robbery, etc. could still wipe out your local data center. Instead, you should give your files to peers (and in return store their files) so that if a catastrophe strikes your area, you can recover data from surviving peers. The Distributed Internet Backup System (DIBS) is designed to implement this vision.

Note that DIBS is a backup system not a file sharing system like Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, etc. In fact, DIBS encrypts all data transmissions so that the peers you trade files with can not access your data.