Best tape backup software

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I'll look forward to hearing your results.  I'm swamped for this month, and so
don't want to mess with what I've got right now.  Next month, I'm hoping to
make some changes.

Thanks

Rob


Quoting Julian Opificius <julianop@barnlea.com>:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:06:28 -0700
> bronto@csd-bes.net wrote:
>
> > I'm trying out a tape backup solution for my server.  More of an experiment
> to
> > see how I like it than a long term plan.  Even so...
> >
> > I've done a search for good utilities and haven't come across anything that
> > thrills me.  What I want is something that's easy to configure, hopefully
> with
> > an interface of some sort, not just command line.  I want to do a daily
> > rotation of tapes like I used to do in the old Jumbo 250 days - a full
> backup
> > at the beginning of the month, and incrementals daily thereafter, rotating
> 2 or
> > more tapes.  I want to get it fully scheduled so that I don't have to think
> > about erasing tapes at the beginning of the month, and of course there
> should
> > be some sort of notification if there are errors or when the tape is
> running
> > out of space.  Locating the most recent version of a file on a tape or
> backup
> > set should be easy and intuitive.
> >
> > I am aware that many simply use tar, but for some reason feel more
> comfortable
> > with something structured - mostly because I suspect restores will be
> easier if
> > there's a program actually managing the backups.
> >
> > FWIW, I've toyed the last month with taper, but the interface is buggy and
> it
> > lowers my confidence, and I've also looked at cpio.  What else is there?  I
> > much prefer nicely written GUIs.
> >
>
> I notice this has so far gone unanswered, so ..
>
> I have just started looking at Bacula (www.bacula.org) for a non profit
> org I'm the IT wrangler for. It allegedly has good GUI interfaces
> for various client side OSs. Looking at the download page I see a
> package for OS-X, so it's fair to say it has been made to run on PPC.
> I'll try to get time to give it a try this week (I'm trying to get full
> time work right now, so I have to be careful about priorities). If you
> do the same, so much the better, and we can share notes here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> julian.
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