[geeks] Linux tape backup help

[Mark Benson]

On 15 Jan 2010, at 13:58, "Dr. Robert Pasken 300a"  
<rpasken at eas.slu.edu> wrote:

> Bacula is NOT a solution to much of anything. My brother works with  
> Bacula and he fights with it daily. It is overly complex to the  
> level of bloatware. IF and ONLY IF you are working with a large  
> company with 10's of thousands of unix work stations, multiple maxed  
> M9000 servers and multiple SL3000's tape libraries bacula  would  
> provide a FOSS alternative to pay software, but even then I would  
> think 30 times before trying bacula

I looked at it this morning and have to say it looks like overkill for  
what I need and at first glance doesn't seem to solve my issue.

I think I'll give it a whirl using shell scripts and see how much  
trouble that gets me into ;)

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