Le jeu 08 déc 2011 09:43:21 CET, Les Mikesell a écrit: > 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. In this last scenario, dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html) works just fine and don't need any remote agent. It is also at least as fast as Bacula at restore time, provided the "catalogue" is ready. -- Philippe Naudin UMR MISTEA : Mathématiques, Informatique et STatistique pour l'Environnement et l'Agronomie INRA, bâtiment 29 - 2 place Viala - 34060 Montpellier cedex 2 tél: 04.99.61.26.34, fax: 04.99.61.29.03, mél: naudin at supagro.inra.fr