Re: Looking for backup software of complete system

[dale <dalen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Thompson wrote:
> Graham Leggett wrote:
>
> > John Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > A good tape system is quite reliable; that's why tape backup is still 
> > > the gold standard in enterprise class installations.  The initial 
> > > outlay for such a system can be higher than CD-RW, but the 
> > > incremental cost of adding media is lower and the media itself has a 
> > > more proven track record than CD-RW.
>
>
> > The biggest drawback of a tape system is time taken to restore a file. 
> > When disaster strikes, the last thing you have is leisure time to find 
> > your data. Having the most critical stuff backed up to (multiple 
> > copies of) CDRWs is a definite win. 
>
>
> I actually do a "best of both worlds" method: backups are dumped to HD 
> every night, and once a week moved to tape. That way anything within the 
> last week is still readily available on the HD dump, and anything older 
> than that remains available on tape.
I recall someone on the K12LTSP list using 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ for daily and tape for weekly backups. 
 Backuppc uses hard links to save space by keeping only one copy of 
each unique file.