Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:55:57 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: "W.D. McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup tape drive under 4.8 ? Message-ID: <20030916015557.GG19020@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <1063601123.9505.1036.camel@papa.wdm.com> References: <1063601123.9505.1036.camel@papa.wdm.com>
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 20:45 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, W.D. McKinney sent this to stdout: > I have a nice tape drive now on our mail server. What is the > best way to back up data as we add customers ? Seems like Bru > and Amanda are getting bad raps now ? Amanda is free but BRU costs money. If you don't mind commercial software I recommend Lone-Tar from Cactus.com. *** This is a semi-commercial announcment *** I have a few machines using that and each night I get an email saying the backup has been perfomed successfully, and later on another email indicating the tape has been rewound and it has verified at the bit-level that the tape matches the contents of the hard drive. I've been using that and another commercial piece of software on clients for years back when I used to have a lot of clients on SCO. But the Lone-Tar is available for FreeBSD, and I 'lent' one of the authors an SGI to compile a version for those a while back. They've been supporting multiple Unix products for at least 10 years. The support is great. They also have a free demo download. Now - here is a disclainer - I'm also a dealer for the SW - so go to the site and take a look. They have a fairly high list price on the SW - but even though I don't sell much I've been a dealer for years and get a decent discount. So if you think you might want this email me. Sorry if anyone finds this too commercial as I tried to keep it just pertinent to the discussion. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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