[aklug] Re: Backups

Yeah, see, that's my problem. I need something to watch what goes on
what tape, and have a bit more sophisticated way of dealing with errors.

I'm familiar with arkeia, which is pretty neat, but is an application
you need to pay for (d'oh!), but that has saved my bacon several times
at a previous job. Amanda uses tar, which is why I don't like it; and
bacula appears to be a huge pain in the keister to set up, which is bad
if I ever quit, get hit by a bus, or have my fingers smashed.

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009, adam bultman said something like:
>
>> Speaking of backups, does anybody know a useful backup solution for
>> linux that will put things on tape?
>>
>> I know of Amanda (which I'm not really a fan of) and Bacula (which
>> I've just installed, and need to configure if it's not a pain) but if
>> there are other backup to tape programs you know of that are easy and
>> free, I'd love to know about them...
>>
>
> tar is the original file to tape software. :)
>
> tar -c -f /dev/st0 *
>
> Not very friendly, and doesn't keep track of which files are on the
> tape, but it does work.
>
> j
>
>

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Received on Thu Apr 30 08:00:03 2009