[H-GEN] DVD Backup & burning software under Linux

David Jericho davidj at tucanatech.com
Fri Jun 11 19:42:13 EDT 2004


Stuart Longland wrote:

>     I plan to put a DDS-2 tape drive in (we recently bought a bunch of
> WangDAT 3400DX drives off Ebay) the server, however it also has a DVD
> drive for the purpose of full-system backups.  Does anyone know of
> software capable of burning CD-RWs (preferrably GPL'ed).
>
>     Also, any recommendations for a backup program?  I'm currently 
> looking
> into something like Bacula, but I'd be interested to know what others'
> opinions are.

Excuse my enthusiasm, but Bacula is almost[1] an administrator's dream 
come true. Backups to DVD media, both single shot and packet writing are 
possible, and tape backup is trivial. It'll do Windows machines 
(including ACLs you may have) and I haven't found a Unix it won't 
backup, along with most attributes on files. It's also under active 
development with a live community.

The author Kern Sibbald is a talented programmer in his own right, but 
also very prompt and helpful with replies regarding Bacula. 
Documentation is probably amongst the best, if not the best I've seen 
for any open source software. I'd very highly recommend having a closer 
look at Bacula. It's not scary to configure, and it works rather well.

[1] Unfortunately you do need to use the Bacula tools to pull apart the 
archive to get your files out. The authors addresses this on x86 
platforms with a bootable tomsrtbt disk for cold metal restores.




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