Scott> I'm currently using dump for backups and am happy with it. Scott> Haven't tried to restore yet, but a long-time colleague/admin Scott> swears by dump/restore - and the tools are free, come with Scott> linux distros,and have community support.
Remember, no one cares about backups, ever. They only care about restores. So do yourself a favor and do a retore to make sure you're actually writing data to the tapes properly. Tales about of people who wrote multiple backups to a single tape, not realizing for months that they had opened the wrong device, which caused the tape to rewind to the beginning after each session was done. Time comes to do a retore, and the only data is from the last session. Ooops! Scott> Legato Networker costs a lot, and is commercial. I'd point you to Amanda and Bacula as free alternatives which do a decent job. Networker, which I've used for years, has some really nice CLI commands which give you alot of power over your backups without having to use a GUI. And they're well documented. Bacula is also well documented, but it's command line tools suck in comparision to Legato's. Can't remember much about Amanda's tools, it's been years since I last used it. Scott> What arguement(s) can be made of/for Legato vs dump? Legato allows you to browse your backups and select only the file(s) you want to restore, and will do so efficiently, without having to scan the entire tape from end to end to do said restore. This goes back to my point above, users only care about restores, not about backups. Scott> I am aware that Legato can be used to help integrate with databases, Scott> Exchange, etc with special addons. But for general filesystem Scott> preservation... dump or Legato. Let's put money aside for now and just Scott> consider overall integrity of files and filesystems. Scott> Thanks. Scott> Scott Scott> _______________________________________________ Scott> bblisa mailing list Scott> [email protected] Scott> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa Scott> !DSPAM:4738bab3267921489523018! _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
