Hey list, Can anyone recommend some backup software for Linux, that is known to actually work? I'm getting really tired of fighting buggy backup programs that fall apart at the drop of a hat, or won't do what we need to.
We have got a big server with a large RAID store -- 605 GB, to be exact. It also has a 14-tape DLT7000 changer attached to it. We simply want a way to make full, incremental and differential backups of plain old files to tape. Due to the size of the dataset, the backup solution has to be able to span a backup run over multiple tapes. We tried NovaNet, a commercial product that has worked well for us on MS-Windows. It looked nice at first, but consistently locks up and needs serious attention to unwedge it again. :-( We had been using GNU tar -- it was simple, and not exactly fast, but it worked. Then we hit this bug with "long file names" that span a tape. I've looked at the GNU tar code to see if I could fix it -- I'm still having nightmares. I looked at star -- no multi-volume support. I looked at GNU cpio -- no multi-volume support. I looked at afio -- it claims to support multi-volumes, but the code is older than time and not maintained, and I'm not sure I want to trust it for this. I considered Amanda. Amanda really isn't appropriate, for, as I understand it, Amanda has to write the backup set to disk before writing it to tape. We have a single system with lots of disk we want to backup to tape. Doubling the storage just to run Amanda is not acceptable. Can anyone make a recommendation? Commercial software will be considered. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
