[plug] re: disk backup

[Jon Miller]

RHL has both pax and dump as well as AMANDA. I've seen flexbackup in
action.  Wasn't too impressed with its restore facility though.  AMANDA
has come to mind in a lot of discussion, have not seen or tested this
one.  I believe it has a GUI front-end, which would be good to run from
my desktop system.  What I'm looking for is the ability to either mirror
the disk (don't mind adding another drive to the server) or backup
across LAN to a central backup server 3 x DDS4 DAT units.

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:27, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20030701020414.GA15927 at guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:04:14AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> >     (including dd, tar, cpio, dump).
> 
> Along the lines of tar and cpio there is also pax but for some reason a
> lot of default Linux-based OS setups don't include it, even though tar
> and cpio are usually present (I think that this unfortunately includes
> Debian; not sure about RHL). Maybe there is no GNU version (!?!?!?!?!).
> Having just poked around on some Linux systems...
> And maybe the `dump` tool for your filesystem is not called `dump`.
> Freshmeat and SourceForge should turn up a few free options
> (e.g. AMANDA, Bacula, DAR, dump/restore, flexbackup, quickbackup).
> 
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Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
MMT Networks Pty Ltd