Backup software

[nathan r. hruby]

On 7 May 2003, Thomas Kuehner wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> 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'm not aware of anything that will read a Retrospect archive on linux 
(other than retrospect, which I do not think has a linuc/ppc version)

Luckily there are lots of freely availible backup programs that will work 
with your tape drive!  the easiest being the in-kernel tape driver and 
tar! 

There are also lots of other scripts that will help you with backups too:
Here are three nice pretty full featured ones:
- afbackup.sf.net
- flexbackup.sf.net
- amanda.sf.net (super powerful, very complex :)

You can also check out the simple script that our systems folks use:
ftp://linuxserv.uga.edu/pub/unix/linux/unsupported/backup

You may also want to take a look at:
http://www.storagemountain.com/
http://freshmeat.net/

HTH,

-n
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