On Sun, 7 May 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> -> Can anyone suggest a good tape backup program (console) that will work
> -> well for me? I've got a SCSI 10/20GB tape drive and would like to backup
> -> the entire system (4 filesystems) and (if possible) some remote systems as
> -> well over ssh.
>
> First thing to do is get Unix Backup & Recovery, W. Curtis Preston,
> O'Reilly & Associates (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/). Then read
> it closely as needed. I wrote a very favorable review for Linux Journal.
Gotchya. I'll go take a look at/for it and see what it can teach me.
> For freeware, you might look at Amanda, although it might be overkill for
> most Linux installations.
Cool. I'll have to take a look at it. I tried with Akeira(?) and it
didn't look like it supported my tape drive, at least not that I could
see... it didn't have any appropriate tape settings. I've got a Seagate
SCSI 10GB/20GB tape drive and I'd like to take advantage of the
compression. So far, it looks like taper is the only one that will do it,
but it gives me a couple errors during the backup, so I'm not sure how
good of a job it's doing either.
I'll take a look at Amanda. Even if it's overkill, as long as it works,
I'm happy. What I'd like to do is be able to backup remote filesystems
via ssh as well, so if Amanda can do something like that, I'll be very
happy.
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