Recommened Tape Backup software

[Joel Jaeggli]

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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