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Alternative to Amanda/Linux?
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| Thorsten Bremer 2004-09-23, 8:45 pm |
| Hello,
because the backup-soft Amanda can't span large filesystems across
multiple tapes, I'm looking for an alternative.
What other backup-software is recommendable to use under Linux?
Preferring open-source or if there is no alternative, commercial.
Thanks.
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Bis denne, <° ><
Thoddi
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| Frank Foss 2004-09-24, 2:46 am |
| Take a look at Bacula (www.bacula.org)
I am just getting started with it, and it works great. Hands-down my
favorite OpenSource backup solution. (And I have tried _many_)
Works with tapes, autochangers and disk pools.
Has a built-in database, or can use mysql or PostgreSQL, so scalability
is good.
Full client-server, even has a client for Windows.
They have some rudimentary bare-bones recovery utils, they are working
on bootable CD image creation. (If that works, I'm gonna be all over it)
Great documentation, and a friendly mailing list.
You'll never look back. Seriously--give it a try!
(Ignore the suggestions about tar, scripts, rsync and the likes)
Foz
Thorsten Bremer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> because the backup-soft Amanda can't span large filesystems across
> multiple tapes, I'm looking for an alternative.
>
> What other backup-software is recommendable to use under Linux?
> Preferring open-source or if there is no alternative, commercial.
>
> Thanks.
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