[rescue] backup software

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

amanda ?

Doesn't it write the tapes in tar format ?

I've not used it... looked into it a few times, and there were some
things I liked about the way it did things...

Wonder how it compares to Bacula ?

-- Curt

>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:31:07 -0400
>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
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>Subject: Re: [rescue] backup software
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>On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:24:11PM -0400, Michael A. Turner wrote:
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>> 	Can you guys throw me some names of backup software you use?
>
>One thing I *hate* about many solutions, is they are not useful to
>the standard toolset.
>
>What I mean is... given a new UNIX system, you cannot use its tools
>to recover data from most of these backup systems.
>
>To me, that is a near-fatal flaw.
>
>For the most part, I wish to have a scalable backup system that leaves
>the actual archives in a format than can be read without the backup
>system.
>
>
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Curtis Wilbar
Hawk Mountain Networks
rescue at hawkmountain.net

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