[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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