I am looking for a simple backup program that I can use to backup a CentOS box to a local tape drive. Hopefully someone here can give me a recommendation.
This is what I need: - Simple launching of manual backups (preferably from the command line) - Ability to span tapes for a large backup - Proper treatment of hardlinked files - Notification via email or similar when it is ready for the next tape.
I tried mondo-rescue, but decided against it after it spent 4 hours just trying to index the files (it never actually started the backup).
I am considering Amanda, but the setup is a bit complex and, based on the docs, the tape spanning capability isn't the best.
Anyone have any suggestions? I would think that there would be a simple program out there to backup and restore from tape without all of the extra scheduling and indexing features.
-- Bowie