[CentOS] Best backup software for linux

Tue Oct 24 05:37:03 UTC 2006
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

> Unless they've changed things since v4.x, I CAN'T reccomend Arkeia. They
> store the backup database on a local drive, and if you should loose that db,
> you'll have to manually scan all your tapes before you can retrieve any
> data. Yes, you can manually backup the db somewhere else, but you can't
> easily put it on tape. Sure, you could simply dump the contents of each tape
> to another system with Arkeia's CLI, but in my case, it was 24 hours per
> AIT3 tape! Since this was in a library, I had 9 tapes to get through.

Are you familiar with Arkeia's DR module?

Barry