> Ah, offtopic time! What affordable backup system is Linux friendly? I > use DAT-2 now, but with 2/4G I'm at the point where I might have to > juggle tapes for the full backup, or severely restrict what to backup. > The possibility to store backups offsite is a plus, but what with the > enourmous harddisks being dirt-cheap these days, it could well be that > a replaceable (hot-swappable?) disks would do. Must be fully > automatable. > > Oh, and tips for good tools for backup and restore. Point-and-click is > a pro, but I need to be able to drive it from the command line. No GUI, > both IDE & SCSI interfaces present. I tried Arkeia but found it arcane > and overkill for a small setup like mine. I tried taper (from way way > back, admitted) but that claimed to do backups yet never > allowed me to restore. Not much use, that. Well.. I use 15/30GB OnStream IDE drive on IDE with taper unattended backup from cron.daily and it suits me fine.
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