From: Kevin Thorpe <kevin at pibenchmark.com> > We have a bit of a problem with backups. We've been using bacula to tape > and now trying to disk but it's a complete nightmare as regards tape > management. The backup to file storage went ok for ages and now is stuck > 'waiting for max storage jobs' which is odd as that's set to 20 and it's > the only backup running. That's totally typical of bacula. > Can anyone suggest a simple backup package for us? Essentially a single > server, full backup to tape every day. We don't need tape management as > we're fully capable of reading the written label on the tape ourselves. Did you ask on the bacula mailing list what could be the problem...? You could try amanda, but it is quite as "heavy" as bacula. If you really want something simple, as in "write these folders to tape", maybe just make a small shell script that uses tar/afio + mt... I prefer afio because it is resilient to errors. JD