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.
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Bowie