Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Rich C
http://www.midwestlinux.com/products/suse/bru2000.html Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:22:23 EDT Benjamin Scott said: I considered Amanda. Amanda really isn't appropriate, for, as I understand it, Amanda has to write the backup set to disk before

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Anderson
We are using Networker from Lagato http://www.legato.com/;. We backup all types of hosts, but so far we've only used Sun's or SGI's as the backup servers. We've used the 4700 DLT's as well as 30 tape DLT drives and AIT tape units. All seem to have there own problems but nothing really related

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
Robert Anderson said: We are using Networker from Lagato http://www.legato.com/;. We backup all types of hosts, but so far we've only used Sun's or SGI's as the backup servers. We've used the 4700 DLT's as well as 30 tape DLT drives and AIT tape units. All seem to have there own problems but

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 12:59pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I considered Amanda. Amanda really isn't appropriate, for, as I understand it, Amanda has to write the backup set to disk before writing it to tape. It doesn't *have* to, it just makes thing faster for over-the-net backups of

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:37:18 EDT Tom Buskey said: Legato also has scaling issues. if you're backing up 100 machines, you probably won't hit it. Also the internal database the use to

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:48:56 EDT Benjamin Scott said: Okay, I went back and checked, and I was remembering wrong. It was not that Amanda requires using the holding disk, it was that

RE: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Ingham, Stephen
I currenty use Veritas Backup Exec to backup all Windows and Linux Systems with no problems. I am in the process of evaluating Veritas Netbackup Data Center to backup all Windows, Linux and Silicon Graphics Systems. No major problems so far. -Original Message- From: Benjamin Scott

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 2:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if you have a single file system smaller than one tape, that's not a problem. Nope. :-( Also, you can use Gnu tar such that you back up directory hierarchies separately, and therefore don't need to have the file system

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:48:56 EDT Benjamin Scott said: For example, if you have a 100GB fs, and you're using DLT IV tapes which only take about 80GB compressed, rather than using dump to dump the entire file system, have amanda use gnu tar to dump

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, at 3:44pm, Tom Buskey wrote: If you're a huge site and you're going to heavily customize your backup system, TSM is a good way to go. Nope, just a single server with a moderately large filesystem. If you just want the standard backups, Veritas Netbackup is good. I