On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:44:31AM -0600, John Hiemenz wrote: ... >I've been using BackupEDGE from Microlite for years on SCO OpenServer and now >use it as well on my linux boxen. No fancy guis or anything, but it does the >job well for me.
You beat me to it. BackupEdge probably has the best recovery ability under Linux and OpenServer around. It's easy to go from cold iron to a fully partitioned system reloading from backups in a minute or two with edge. The current version also support DVD-RAM which allows almost instantaneous recovery of any file on the backup media. The DVD-RAM cartridges hold 4.7gb uncompressed, are rated at 100,000 writes by the lawyers (engineers say it's a lot higher than that), and cost less than Travan tapes. SCSI DVD-RAM drives can be had for about $350.00, and ATAPI units are a bit less than that (I had a bit of a problem with ATAPI last week on a Caldera eDesktop 2.4 system, and the support people at Microlite were very helpful to diagnose the problem, and update the edge.tape program to fix it). We're building most of our new systems with the DVD-RAM drives instead of a CDROM and SCSI tape drive, and installing BackupEdge. The total cost for the DVD-RAM and Edge is comparable to a DDS-3 SCSI drive. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.'' _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
