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

[Patrick Nichols]

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>> Willie Yeo wrote:
>>>     I dug out my ole' SCSI Tape Backup unit, and am thinking of
>>> hooking it up to my Linux box.

> Sarah Hollings wrote:
>> AMANDA:
>> http://www.amanda.org/
>> http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html

David Jericho said:
> 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/

There is also the tried and true method of writing your own custom backup
scripts.  It really isn't that difficult.  Of course you will probably
have comments at the top of the file similar to this one I just pulled off
the production server here :)

#!/bin/sh
# backup.sh created 6/6/03 by Patrick Nichols
#
# This is a rudimentary backup script to get us through until we get this
# all configured properly. :)
#
# That means that it will probably be used for years to come with much
# hacking up.

After a while it just evolved into something useful.  Now it is at the
point of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

-- 
Patrick

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