Looking for backup software of complete system

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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.