dirvish http://www.dirvish.org/ tad On 6/7/06, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- sometimes truth is stranger than fiction -bad religion- http://www.bloglines.com/blog/mailist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060607/dc11dab8/attachment-0005.html>