From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 9 13: 3:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221E137B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6747F43F43 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:03:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C91B0CD24; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:03:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by testmail.wolves.k12.mo.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0738CD23; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:03:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:03:15 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Brad Knowles Cc: Jamie Bowden , "" Subject: Re: Backup Solutions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030109144734.H89358@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <20030106051858.U33984-100000@moo.sysabend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > And I want to do it in a cross-platform environment, which > gives me a reasonable chance of having the backups continue to be > readable and useable, even after an OS upgrade or three on either > the clients or the server(s). I think I mentioned in the past that a commercial tool is probably what you're looking for, such as Legato Networker or Veritas NetBackup, but it might be interesting to note that Veritas claims that NetBackup stores its archives on tape in tar format. This could give you the "forward compatibility" that you're looking for. I haven't verified that this is actually the case, but you can try it for free if you give them a call and see for yourself. One of these days I may actually hook the tape drive up to one of my FreeBSD boxes and see if I can use tar to extract the stuff off of it. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message