Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with "Amanda", but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants?
Thanks, Frank > I currently work for a large university. We currently have a > Very Large tape library system (a walk-in model, terrabites of storage, > hundreds of tapes, blah blah blah) > > We currently have robotics software (unitree) and some "interesting" > home-grown custom jobbies. > Unfortunately, they are rather ugly. So I'd like to be able to migrate our > backups to something a little more sane, and a little more widely used. > > Given the amount of data, and number of hosts, and our limited funding for > software, getting a license for veritas or legato backup software, etc. > is going to be out of the question. So I need a free solution suggested. > > My ideal backup solution would handle: > > > 1. multiple incoming backup streams, ideally multiplexing then to a single > tape or virtual "restoral device", for streaming speed purposes, etc. > > 2a. know about interfacing with unitree directly, OR > > 2b. be flexible about "save all the data to a pseudo-'file' which is > actually managed by HSM > > 3. be able to handle restore requests along the lines of, > > "Give me all the files in directory X, on machine Y, at date > YYY/MM/DD:HH/MM/SS" > > and pull in the appropriate files from the last full dump, and all > relevant incrementals. > > And if there was a level0, level2, level3, and level4 dump, and > the most recent versions of the file(s) were on level3, > it would not have to go through the level0 and level2 dumps > to find out the data is not there. > > > 4. it must be able to handle Very Large Filesystems > (I'm not sure we have any terrabytes filesystems... Yet. > But we probably will have them soon) > > 5. It should be able to handle restoring Solaris ACLs > > > > > It is not neccessary to have any kind of non-root-user interface. > Restores are handled by the sysadmins only. > > Of all of the above, I think that everything except #2 is mandatory. > > Am I dreaming, or is there anything out there for free that can actually > handle all of this? -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501