On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 21:53, Julian Underwood wrote: > I'm pretty frustrated with Tape Backup software at the moment. I simply > want an easy to use/install, program which will allow me to backup my > server to multiple DLT tapes. > > I tried BRU, and it worked OK, but it's not free, so I couldn't restore. > I checked out Networker from Legato, and it seems a bit much for a > single server--which is also not free. > > Could someone recommend a good backup software which can handle this > task? I understand that Amanda is quite good, but doesn't support > appending to multiple tapes "out of the box." Amanda can use multiple tapes. It just can't split a backup of a single filesystem or directory across them. If you can break things up in chunks so the biggest full run will fit on a single tape it will work. http://www.bacula.org/ looks interesting, but I haven't used it. I've pretty much given up on tapes and use backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ to back up to online disks now. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
