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Hi all,
Ok no specific problem here except backup in
general. When I was first shown the Qube and all its easy to set up
features, great (I thought) however I feel exposed to problems due to the
backup.
I don't know about anyone else but I have had quite
a few timeout problems when trying to do a backup 'real time' via the
interface. There appears to be no way of altering the timeout of the
browser so once you have too many files for it to backup in the time the browser
waits... backup useless. I'm not saying the interface is not good but it
needs to be capable of doing the job and I have had if fail on backing up 32Mb
of files!!
I also see from time to time on this mailing list
that there is a limit to the size of file that Linux will handle (2Gb?) and
seeing as the Qube's smallest flavour is 4.3Gb you can less than half fill this
before you get a problem, a problem made worse by the fact that it will still
continue to backup and say everything is ok even after the 2Gb boundary (from
what I have read on the mailing list).
You also have a problem in that if the Qube has
been backed up and is unavailable (no problem with this, any hardware can fail)
you have a file which is non standard and cannot be used to extract files
from. I did read somewhere that it is a modified tar or something and you
can 'fix' it but this sounds very messy.
There is this Legato Networker option on the
control panel but I have also read that you buy this in packs of four at a large
cost $500+ not the sort of thing a small business is likely to go
for.
I am not a Linux expert, it wasn't made clear that
I would have to be to run the Qube, so my point is this. I really
like the Qube, it is somehow going in the right direction but there really needs
to be a better backup solution.
So, would it be useful to use the scheduled backup
to backup the configuration once a week (or however often it changes) as this is
relatively small and can probably be done 'live' if you make changes
anyway. I have the restore CD so I feel a
bit more secure in that I can create a 'blank' Qube on which to recopy my
backup. and then use some sort of FTP type program to copy the /home/users
directory to another location. Would this get a full backup of the
Qube? or does someone know of a better solution?
Thanks,
Dave
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