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Gav
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 Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:11 pm Post subject: Help me find usable tape backup software |
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I have a SCSI tape drive that I wish to use to make backups of my Gentoo system and data.
I did have a go with Mondo-Rescue, but the ebuilds are a little out of date and they have problems with my RAID-5 array. These issues are supposedly solved with later versions, but I can't get them to play well with Gentoo. I'm not skilled enough to create a new ebuild for mondo-rescue and mindi, so if anyone is able to, it's sure to help me or someone else. 
However I think there's more backup software out there and I'd like to use some. I wish I had time to search high and low for my solution, and then take the time to install it and create an ebuild etc... but alas I am far too busy to reinvent the wheel... So what do people use to backup to tape with other than tar/star?
I do like GUI's for things I'm not so certain about, but would be happy with a good console app that I can make a batch file for and cron. I tend to use KDE.
So what's available to install easily (ebuild preferred or something that requires few dependancies)? |
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t_colar
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One of the best is archeia, it is free fro non commercial use i think, otherwise it's commercial.
Other that that you have "Amanada", and also "Burt" i think, "Amanada" is probably what you want, it's quite hard to setup though.
Apparently gentoo has almost no ebuild for archiving/tape tools, or at least i did not find them. |
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BigRedDot
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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"BRU" is another well recommended, full featured package (commercial ~$80 for personal license IIRC). Though I have not used it in ages, so that's about all I can add.
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bernjuer
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What's wrong with tar?
Honestly, I use tar with DAT streamers on all my production machines with a cron job.
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/bin/tar --create --gzip --totals --file /dev/tape /raid /home /usr/local/httpd 2> /tmp/tarlog || die "tapemonkey failed again to insert tape, apply lart"
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BigRedDot
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What's wrong with tar? |
As long as you don't have to do incremental backups, nothing.
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