On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 22:53 -0400, Julian Underwood wrote: > Dear List, > > 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." I use Legato NetWorker at work, and had long hoped that I could get something like that for home use. Then I found bacula (www.bacula.org) and I was happy :-) Bacula's based on Networker, can append to multiple tapes and keeps a database of everything backed up, so it's possible to recover files from specific dates etc. You need to think a bit about how to set things up at first, but once it's running it's very smooth. See also: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
