On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
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."
I use cpiotool, it's simple, it works across multiple tapes, and it works
over ssh. it's also relatively easy to do baremetal recovery from it's
archives.
http://www.nickb.org/utils/cpiotool.htm
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.
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