Recommened Tape Backup software

[Paul Howarth]

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.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>