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

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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"Patrick Nichols" <pat at mutton.humbug.org.au> writes:
> David Jericho said:
>> 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
>> 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.

I disagree.  Writing flexible, extensible and well-documented software
that fails gracefully and provides adequate reporting and statistics
appears to be incredibly difficult!

When I make backups I want to be able to use software that has been
tested and re-tested for a number of years before I'll trust my data
to it.  AMANDA may have some problems but Bacula better have been
under development since about 1993---1998 at the *very* latest---for
me to even consider it.

> 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".

I don't mean to be rude, Pat, but ... brrr.  That gives me the
willies.

jason
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