Backup software

[Matthias Saou]

Thomas Kuehner wrote :

> does anyone know a backup software for backing up data to a SCSI DAT
> tape drive (Archive Pyhton) running on YDL 3.0? Is there maybe a
> software that is able to read Retrospect formats from DAT?

I've always used amanda for backuping. It's a wonderful client/server
backup tool, with a really easy to use file recover utility. The docs are
very light, but once you get into it, it's pretty easy.
I wouldn't recommend using it on a standalone server, as it stores the
backup indexes to disk, unless always copying them over to another host
after each run, which I systematically do.

See http://www.amanda.org/
Of course, 2.4.2p2 is included in YDL 3.0 ;-)

Matthias

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