Re: Tape Drive With Linux.

On Thu, 02 May 2002 15:07:19 +0100
Matthew Stanfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> There seems to be quite a lot of free software available to create and
> restore backups. I need to backup 2 drives, my main Linux drive and a Win
> 2000 drive (on a Samba share) so it's not like a major backup job -- it's
> less than 10GB. What software do you recommend I use? I'm most interested
> in ease of use, ideally I'd like a GUI interface but the software must be
> free / open source.

I use afio via the flexbackup Perl script.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flexbackup/

It's not GUI, but it's easy enough to use when you get it setup.  Afio
allows you to safely use compression, but if your tape is big enough
perhaps that's not important to you.

These are all command-line tools.  The nice thing about that:  You can
easily setup a cron job to do your backup.  I can do a bare-metal restore
with just Tomsrtbt and a tape.  It's difficult to do that with GUI apps.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

A few years ago I couldn't find any decent GUI backup utilities, so I
learned how to use the trusty command-line utitlies like cpio, afio, and
tar and haven't looked backed since.  The nice thing about these programs
is that they are very mature and reliable, something to look for in a
backup utility, I would think.

-- 
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
		-- Bill Veeck
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