[CentOS] Best backup software for linux

Tue Oct 24 14:36:25 UTC 2006
Mark Schoonover <schoon at amgt.com>

Barry Brimer wrote:
>> 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

No, I think this came out in version 5, which by that time, I didn't want to
have anything to do with Arkeia.

Mark