tape backup

[Kevin Buettner]

On May 19,  8:23am, Joel Dudley wrote:

> Well, I convinced my company to allow me to load Linux on our backup server.
> The fact that Backup Exec on winblows crashed every other time it ran
> helped.  Anyway, got the tape working fine, but I am wondering what the most
> effective tape backup program for linux is.  I am playing with bru right
> now.  I am backing up a windows network and will be using SMB mount (once I
> get winnt shares to play nice).  Is BRU decent (seems to be), or am I fine
> with using tar?  Thanks for any insight on this.

Let me know what you end up settling on.

I've heard good things about BRU, but haven't used it.  You will probably
want something better than tar.

The other backup program that you should look at is Amanda.  See
http://www.amanda.org/.

Kevin

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