On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:01:45PM +0100, Peter Crighton enlightened us: > >We are running backup softwares for incrementals/differentials and full backups > >with variouse softwares currently using dirvish scripts + amanda .. what is > >everyones views on other opensourced backup software? is there anything better > >or other options we have missed? We are looking at backula as an option? any > >thoughts? > > I am looking for the answer to the same question. I have got amanda > going (but not used in anger - just doing my first Centos install for > my home server). Just today got amanda to write and restore some data. > > So my requirements: > > * cheap/free > * multiple backups per tape > * fully automated backup each day > * easy recovery (happy with either a Kdat type GUI or amanda type) - > needs to know which tape to recover the latest (or chosen) version. > * ideal for a home network (mixed Linux Windows) > > > > The only thing I don't like about amanda (so far) is that it needs a > new tape each backup, mainly because I'd like it to be a completely > automatic backup, only requiring the tape to be changed when full (or > maybe each month). > > I typically don't backup much data each day (because it's a home > network), so I'd like to be able to store multiple backups on each > tape. I have 20GB Travan tape drive, so that's enough for a complete > full backup and several incremental's. > If you have enough holding disk, just leave the tape out until you hit about 20GB worth of data. I do this here at work on a weekly basis - holding disk is a pair of RAID 1 disks, then once a week I pop a tape in and it flushes the entire week's worth of data. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263