[BBLISA] Tape backup program for Debian?

[bblisa at richfox.org]

Hi,

We use commercially available BRU (http://www.tolisgroup.com)
which has worked out for us on our large file server (8.5 million files,
1.2 TB) backing up to a Dell PVT132 LTO2 Tape Changer.
We're running it on MacOS X Server but I know it is available for a number
of platforms.
The OS X GUI version has some wierd quirks but it seems to work once you
get the hang of setting it up. I haven't looked at it on other platforms
so I can't comment on it's useability there.

It's also worth noting that we have not yet encountered the catastrophe
(knock on wood) that would cause us to have do a real-life restore from
tape so I can't comment on that part of it either. (As it stands we'd have
to have an environmental catastrophe to bring us to that point). All of
our tests seemed to indicate that we can rely on it.

Thanks,
Rich.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 bblisa-request at bblisa.org wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:47:39 -0400
> From: "John Stoffel" <john at stoffel.org>
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Tape backup program for Debian?
> To: Scott Ehrlich <scott at ehrlichtronics.com>
> Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org
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> Scott> I just installed the Sarge stable distribution of Debian on it
> Scott> and am looking for recommendations for a tape backup
> Scott> package/method. 
> 
> Try Bacula, www.bacula.org, and you can even do an 'apt-get' of the
> tool, it's in Debian.  Pretty good software.  The nice thing is that
> it can span backups across tapes, which Amanda (at my last look)
> couldn't do. 
> 
> It's got it's quirks, and I don't like the reports and some of the
> user interface, but it's been working quite nicely at home with a
> single DLT tape drive.
> 
> John
> 
> 
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