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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:40:52AM +1000, Terry Sposato wrote:

> I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this
> kind of problem in a production environment.

I'd use a separate machine with a set of cheap SATA disks and connect my
tape drives to this machine. Then I would mirror the data from the
virtual machines to this backup server with rsync and write them to tape.
This would be a quick solution and has worked well for me in the past.

If you need more features and have some spare time you should have a look
at amanda or bacula.

http://www.amanda.org/
http://www.bacula.org/

Uwe