[H-GEN] Any recommendations for Tape Backup software ?

[David Jericho]

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Sarah Hollings wrote:

> Willie Yeo wrote:
>>     I dug out my ole' SCSI Tape Backup unit, and am thinking of 
>> hooking it up to my Linux box.
 >
> AMANDA:
> http://www.amanda.org/
> http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

Argh, good Lord no. Amanda is old, crufty, and quite simply outdated in 
many concepts of modern backup. The only thing it does have going for it 
is that it uses either tar or dump.

If you're wanting to play with a tape drive, and do something useful 
with it as well, check out Bacula. http://www.bacula.org/

It's not perfect, but it's under active development, the documentation 
verges on the best I've seen for an OSS project, and the authors are 
helpful all around.

And it can even span a single backup across multiple tapes![1]

[1] Amanda still cannot do it after how many years? Creates a problem 
for an organisation with growing data needs.

-- 
David Jericho
Systems Administrator, Plugged In Software


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