Bru / bru 2000 is a fine product that I may eventually buy. But it is not
the same catagory as arkeia/amanda.
Bru,afio,cpio,dump,tar are the "get data off filesystem into a stream"
catagory.
arkeia/amanda are at the "manage a bunch of streams from different systems
onto a tape server, catalog the tapes, etc etc" level.
(amanda goes ahead and uses either dump or tar, arkeia does the
equivalent)
I was looking for other "backup management"? catagory software.
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
> bru2000 is another. Not sure on the URL though.
>
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> Brian D. Haymore
> University of Utah
> Center for High Performance Computing
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> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Now that someone has started this thread :)
> >
> > Are there any other "industrial strength" backup solutions like arkeia out
> > there?
> >
> > I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my budget.
> > Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes killed it for me.
> >
> > Anything else in that catagory? Commercial, open, whatever.
> >
> > --
> > Hunter Matthews Unix / Network Administrator
> > Office: BioSci 222/244 BioScience
> > Darth root, Dark Lord of the Unix.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-)
> > > > My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I
> > > > suspect there must be something wrong with the compression. To verify this I
> > > > need some additional information:
> > >
> > > How are you decicing that it is only 12GB? If you are looking at the
> > > details of the specific tape and it shows 12GB used and 0GB free then
> > > things are working right. That window shows the data that arkeia has put
> > > on the tape. Remember that the data is already compressed. So you are
> > > seeing the physical amount of data that the drive wrote to the tape, but
> > > when you look at the fact that the data stream that got written was
> > > already compressed you see that the logical amount written is more. If
> > > you look at the log output from the backup you will see the compression
> > > ratio that it achieved and do the math.
> > >
> > > > - What are the right dip switch settings of the DAT24?
> > >
> > > I've found that hardware and software compression equals bloated results.
> > > The software compression by arkeia wins over the hardware compression for
> > > our DLT library and our HP library, which is the same one you have.
> > >
> > > > - Did 'mt datcomression 2' really switch the compression on??
> > > > - What is the best block size for the dump command???
> > > > - Any other topics I have to look for????
> > > >
> > > > Oh, the box: kernel 2.2.9 & Adaptec AHA-2940 at 10 MB/s narrow sync, Dual
> > > > Processor Board with two PII/400
> > > >
> > > > Thanx
> > > > Thomas
> > > >
> > >
> >
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