Ubuntu tape backup

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:08 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 13. Jul, 2006 schwätzte Nate Plamondon so:
> 
> > I recently acquired a Dell PowerVault 120T SCSI tape autochanger for
> 
> My sympathies.
> 
> > use with my Ubuntu Dapper machine at home.  I have precious little
> > experience with tape backups and could use a little help.  I have thus
> > far tried using amanda (no autochanger support) and bacula (doesn't
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've used amanda with autochangers before.
> 
> > want to use my autochanger).  I think bacula could fulfill my needs,
> > but I'm not entirely sure how to configure it to work properly.  I
> > could also use a hand setting up a sane backups scheme.  I have some
> > ideas, but I would like an experienced opinion.  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Try moving things around by hand just to make sure the autochanger and the
> commo with the OS are working.
> 
> mtx - controls tape autochangers
> 
> Yup, looks like amanda can handle libraries.
> 
> ###
> MTX can be used to manipulate tape auto-changers, also known as
> "jukeboxes", such that backup software can make use of the multiple tape
> capabilities of the auto-changer.  In particular, this is necessary glue
> for using a backup system like Amanda with a DDS auto-changer like the HP
> Surestore 12000e.
> ###
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I think you will find that bacula has become the GPL backup monster -
though amanda is very good and very UNIX, bacula has features out the
wazoo, can span tapes, web based reporting with graphs, etc.

Craig