On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun >> StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of >> RHEL and CentOS. The software we are using is EMC >> >> NetWorker Management Console version 3.5.1.Build.269 >> based on NetWorker version 7.5.1.Build.269 >> >> The pickle we are in right now is that this software is Java based, and >> stops working at a very specific release of JRE (1.6.26 or something like >> that). > > That sounds like something that can/should be fixed. > >> >> I am familiar with BackupPC and will look at the other recommendations >> above. I think that Bacula and Amanda are sort of the drop-in replacements >> for what we have now so I'll look at them most closely. But if I do have >> to carry forward with our own backups I'd ideally like to get out of the >> tape game - never liked tapes. > > If you want mostly-online backups with perhaps an occasional tar > archive, it will be hard to beat backuppc because of it's storage > pooling and ability to run over rsync or smb with no remote agents. > For all-tape, I'd probably go with amanda because of its ability > juggle the full/incremental mix automatically to fit the available > tape size. I haven't used bacula but it looks like it might be good > if you want a mix of online and tape storage and can deal with the > agent installs. ---- also - Bacula now has 'Enterprise' version with SLA and yes, Bacula can not only do tape and/or disk but can also migrate backup jobs (ie, disk to tape) http://www.baculasystems.com/ Craig