[CLUE-Tech] Help with remote backup problem

[Adam Bultman]

I don't know how many clients you have to back up, but you might 
consider arkeia (www.arkeia.org). Arkeia Lite is a 'free' version which 
allows up to three or four clients, I believe.  I use it for my network 
(~30 backed up machines) and it works pretty well.  I use the lite 
version in a few places too, and it works like a charm - restoring is EASY.

If you want a simple, command-line interface with a LOT more reliability 
than TAR, you can use BRU.  It's fast, works well, allows for 
tape-spanning (if you are there changing 'em) and is very easy to use.

Adam

Chris Hirsch wrote:

>
>> I have 3 servers that need to be backed up.  One of them houses a 
>> 40/80 DLT drive.  I was trying to use GNU tar, however this much data 
>> was taking f-o-r-e-v-e-r to finish.  So I discovered 'star'.  
>> Something about this program makes it MUCH faster for network backups.
>> Anyhow, here's the situation.  On the server with the tape drive, I 
>> run a nightly perl program that first backs up the local files using 
>> star, then backs up the two remote servers using rsh to call star and 
>> pipes back to dd to write it to the tape drive.
>> The problem I'm having is that when I try and un-star either the 2nd 
>> or 3rd file, I get:
>
>
> To make life eaiser (it certainly did mine) you may want to check out 
> http://www.bacula.org This is a cross-platform backup program 
> (Mac/Unix/Windows/etc) with naitive clients for each OS. It can do 
> remote backups, it works with disk, tape etc. The initial learning 
> cuve kinda hurts but after that you wonder why you did anything else.
>
> Hope it helps!
> Chris
>