[SunHELP] looking for backup ideas

[Big Endian]

>Hello all,
>
>I'm looking for backup ideas.  My current scheme is that each of my 
>servers have a tape drive in it.  A few of the less critical 
>machines create a tar files of the important stuff and another 
>machine collects the tar files via cron entries and perl scripts.
>
>Our department is now facing space issues, we need to add machines 
>but don't have any new space to put them.  We're now looking into 
>replacing tower case machines with rackmounted 1U units, but those 
>things don't come with tapedrives, at least none I've looked at so 
>far.
>
>I currently have a mix of linux boxes and Solaris boxes.
>
>I'm eyeing the setup that our Novell administrator has here.  He's 
>got a few backup servers which go out and backup other servers each 
>night.  He's using ArcServe.
>
>I see that there is a linux version of ArcServe.  I'm guessing that 
>I could run a linux box w/ ArcServe on it to backup my other linux 
>boxes, but what about my Sun boxes?
>
>Is there some product that runs on either Solaris or linux that can 
>be used to backup other boxes?  I'd like the "backup" server to run 
>the show, not have the remote servers tar to the backup servers tape 
>drive.  I don't want to have to worry about having 2 machines trying 
>to tar to the drive at the same time.
>
>Am I making sense?
>
>
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>  Providence College      |   http://www.providence.edu
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I'm setting up a similar thing for our live database servers, I'm 
using amanda (www.amanda.org) and I like it a lot.

Daniel
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