On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:35:44AM -0500, Michael Fraase wrote: >Just about the only thing that's keeping us from migrating our servers >to some variant of Linux is cross-platform backup software. How cross platform. Get a linux box setup, dump that "commercial" crap backup software being used and go with amanda. If you have mac's, have the mac users put stuff on an appleshare on a *nix server and backup that servers disk at night. >I've never yet restored anything but our Macs completely from a backup >set (with Windows it's just easier to reformat/reinstall) but I'm >regularly pulling single files and directories from the tapes. You could setup your current software to backup to a linux/(ugh)NT system, and have the backup software dump that. >Is there software for Linux that will allow me to do the same. I want it >transparent, reliable, and in the background. Amanda! www.amanda.org. It's never let me down. It's fully automated, and if you have a changer, you'll never have to even look at it to backup/restore ever again. Not only that, it automagically compares modification dates and schedules different levels of incrementals and full backups over your tape schedule so you aren't filling up every tape with full-dumps of data that's already backed up. I've never heard of what you were using, but amanda is in production in HUGE shops across the country that have far greater backup needs than your's I'm sure. (Not that you don't have a great need, but amanda is running backups for a couple large universities that I can think of right off the top of my head.) It's also well documented and mailing lists are very informative. You got a question, post it, and you'll have a *plethora* (yeah yeah) of answers within a day. Go get that from the engineers of BRU or Dantz or whoever else makes crappy commercial backup software. Thanks, -- Thomas J. Hudak Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. - www.sistina.com Phone: 612.638.0500 x.513 Fax: 612.379.3952 Page: 612.318.1967 Key fingerprint = BEC6 3181 4C9B A7BB AF11 4717 6F85 B346 380D 523E sleep: Command not found - The story of my life... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010815/ca2a6083/attachment.pgp