[H-GEN] Tape drive usage

[James C. McPherson]

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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 18:43:20 +1000 "Patrick Nichols" <pat at humbug.org.au> wrote:
> I've finally procured a tape drive for work, and after all the wait can
> start doing nightly backups.
> I have enough capacity on a single tape to hold all the information off the
> server.
> My question is, what is the best software to use?
> How do I manage all the different tapes, and monitor usage of each one?
> What software is already written to do all of this?
> I'm guessing using standard utilities is better than fancier ones, in that
> you can boot off just about any bootable linux cd and restore from that.  I
> don't want to have to reinvent the wheel, what does everyone else do?


You have a lot of choices. If you want to go cheap+reliable, try amanda at
www.amanda.org. If you actually have a budget for software and your boss wants
to be able to blame somebody, choose something like bru, legato networker or
veritas netbackup. Make sure you have more than "plenty" of tapes ;) DR is
something that people actually tend to forget about ;)

best advice -- work out what you want to achieve, then ask for suggestions
if your own research doesn't lead to a winner.



James C. McPherson
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