Recommened Tape Backup software

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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  Les Mikesell
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