I use Arkeia (www.arkeia.com). The "light" (free) version allows you to backup three hosts (including the one which the tape drive is attached to). It recognizes a variety of tape drives (including my DLT), but it won't do anything fancy such as libraries or silos. You have to pay a bunch of money to get those features.
But it backs up and restores nicely. It has some nice features, like scheduled backups, emailing of reports, redirected restores, etc. I have it working with two Linux boxes (one of which hosts the tape drive) and one Microsoft box. It backs them up automatically, appending to the current tape. When it needs a new tape, it generates an email asking for one. Roy Aaron Walker said: > Came home at 3am this morning to find my main desktop machine locked up > solid... Rebooted and all of a sudden heard the dreaded clicking of the > hard drive (a 6month old WDC 80GB). I was wanting to reinstall Gentoo > on my main desktop anyways, but this wasn't quite what I had in mind... > > Anyways, I threw a spare hard drive in (identical to the one that died), > and am in the process of reinstalling Gentoo (on the 3rd different > machine this week ) > > Once I get everything back up and running, I want to start making it a > habit to back things up on a regular basis. I was wondering what others > on this list did for their backups. > > I was considering the following: > - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines on > my home LAN > - buy another 80G and a RAID card and run it in RAID 1 > > any recommendations? > > Thanks, > Aaron > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
