On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of RHEL and CentOS. The software we are using is EMC
NetWorker Management Console version 3.5.1.Build.269 based on NetWorker version 7.5.1.Build.269
The pickle we are in right now is that this software is Java based, and stops working at a very specific release of JRE (1.6.26 or something like that).
That sounds like something that can/should be fixed.
I am familiar with BackupPC and will look at the other recommendations above. I think that Bacula and Amanda are sort of the drop-in replacements for what we have now so I'll look at them most closely. But if I do have to carry forward with our own backups I'd ideally like to get out of the tape game - never liked tapes.
If you want mostly-online backups with perhaps an occasional tar archive, it will be hard to beat backuppc because of it's storage pooling and ability to run over rsync or smb with no remote agents. For all-tape, I'd probably go with amanda because of its ability juggle the full/incremental mix automatically to fit the available tape size. I haven't used bacula but it looks like it might be good if you want a mix of online and tape storage and can deal with the agent installs.
---- also - Bacula now has 'Enterprise' version with SLA and yes, Bacula can not only do tape and/or disk but can also migrate backup jobs (ie, disk to tape)
Craig