Tape backup software recommendations

[Joel Jaeggli]

I use cpiotool which is a perl wrapper for cpio for dealing with remote 
backups...

http://www.nickb.org/utils/cpiotool.htm

there is also amanda

http://www.amanda.org/


On Mon, 30 May 2005, Gérard Milmeister wrote:

> I am looking for backup software for DDS tapes. Apart from tar, star,
> cpio and their relatives I found taper (taper.sourceforge.net), which
> seems perfect for my needs (single system backup). However this software
> hasn't had an update for over 2 years, and since it uses a non-standard
> (i.e., non-tar, non-cpio) format for its backup, it is uncertain that
> backups will be retrievable in the mid to far future. Suggestions for
> current solutions similar to taper would be welcome.
>

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