Sorry, I thought everyone would be able to infer what I meant by cross-platform from the body of the original message. Cross-platform for me, in this case, means Macs (OS 9.x and OSX) and Windows (Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP) backed up *transparently* by software running on Linux. Transparency is important. I don't want users to have to worry about moving files to a server volume or specifying files to be backed up or anything else; I just want the entire contents of a computer backed up to the tape. In the background. Automatically. Neither Amanda nor Arcserve seem to have any sort of Mac client software, which would rule them out for my application. -- Michael Fraase ARTS & FARCES LLC mfraase at farces.com www.farces.com PGP Fingerprint: 3D85 F3F4 9E65 4949 176A 260C CB47 190D C864 9A96 > -----Original Message----- > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:39:46 -0500 (CDT) > From: Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Newbie question: Cross-platform backup software > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Michael Fraase wrote: > > Is there software for Linux that will allow me to do the > same. I want > > it transparent, reliable, and in the background. > > Since you didn't mention the word "free" in there I'll make a > plug for Arcserve, now running on NT, Novell, and linux. > Yup, it's spendy. You get what you pay for though. > > You didn't mention what "multi-platform" means. > Mac? Windows? Solaris? BeOS?