On 6 May 2015 at 22:49, J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com> wrote: > Don't dismiss Amanda it works well in a disk based setup. I don't > bother with the spooling disk though. I back up to virtual tape slots > on an external disk and rotate three external disks; two are in the > firesafe at work, one is on top of my PC. I can say the same about Bacula, just spooling to virtual tape slots on external disks work just fine here, it has worked more than a decade w/o a hitch and I'm not changing it for the sake of having a change any time soon (originally was backing to an external SCSI tape using DDS2 media virtually using the same config files but rotating multi-TB external disks is cheaper & easier).