I can also recommend AMANDA. It can be a little tricky to set up. There is no GUI to set it up. You have 2 config files that you will need to setup. One is the main amanda.conf and the other is your disklist file. The AMANDA users mailing list is very helpful and the help is great.
It uses cron to run so you could set it to run on those days you want it to run. It does a "load" balancing if you will of your backups. It will eventually try to spread out your back-ups so that its about even tape use every time it is run. Pros: It can back up any system that either it can get to. AMANDA runs on about all UNIX or UNIX-style systems (as a client or backup server). Windows systems can be backed up via smbclient (I do this at work). Price was great. Arkeia wanted more for their software than we spent on the hardware and I was lucky to get the server as it was. Of course, the data that is kept on that hardware spans up to nearly 13 years (the life of the company.) and is easily worth much more than the software cost. Infinite configurations. I run a daily backup (Tues-Sat morn.). With a manual full system when I remember so I can take off-site. These configurations are kept seperately. It can be set (via cron) to check for the correct tape. You can receive mail if the check fails (wrong tape, host unreachable, etc.) RPMS are distributed with RedHat. Cons: It can be a bear to set up. It took me a couple of days. Upgrading from RH 6.2 -> 7.2 broke it pretty good. Took me a few hours to get it back working...but that can happen with anything. This is the worst part of it. After this its just feed your tapes into the drive. Can't be forced into Sat- Full back-up with weekday incremental. That one is often asked for, but won't be implemented. That "load-balancing" feature can come in handy for sites that are really close to filling tapes. Can't span file systems across tapes. The full file system must fit on a tape. (They may be working on this). Changers are supported though. But you can break a file system up with different disklist entries. It just depends on what way you want to go. You can also use scripts to run your backups with. I couldn't script my way out of a paper bag so I went with Amanda. AMANDA can be found at http://www.amanda.org. This is one of those apps that you do have to RTFM. It sure taught me to. The install and configure docs are pretty cook book. I don't care much for the FAQ-O-Matic on the web site. Good luck. Patrick On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:22, Jim Hale wrote: > I'm currently using a Win2K Advanced Server with a Seagate 4g/8g Tape Backup > Drive and Veritas Tape Backup Software. Is there software that is comparable to > Veritas for Linux so that maybe I can move another server OVER to Linux? > > Thanks! > > Jim Hale > --- > Jim & Kathy's Website Collection > http://hale.dyndns.org > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
