[SunHELP] Backup Techniques / Scripts

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:10:52AM -0800, Alex Flores wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who helped out with my Mirrored Disks, especially Phil 
> Stracchino.
> 
> Now I have another item and am looking for suggestions.  My e450 has a tape 
> drive, DDS4 20/40, and need to backup my system to it.  I was thinking 
> something as simple as a cpio to the tape drive.  I don't have anything to 
> spend on this so it has to be just what Solaris 9 offers, or perhaps there 
> are some open source programs?


Try Bacula.  http://www.bacula org/ or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/

It's what I use to back up my Solaris machines.  (All my machines, in
fact, except the Macs, there being no classic-MacOS client for Bacula
yet).

We also have a support channel in #bacula on irc.freenode.net.


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