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I am looking for a simple backup program that I can use to backup a CentOS box to a local tape drive. Hopefully someone here can give me a recommendation. This is what I need: - Simple launching of manual backups (preferably from the command line) - Ability to span tapes for a large backup - Proper treatment of hardlinked files - Notification via email or similar when it is

...orage. This is what BackupPC does. For some sites, this might be the complete backup solution. For other sites, additional permanent archives could be created by periodically backing up the server to tape. A variety of Open Source systems are available for doing backup to tape, such as Amanda or afbackup. Key features are pooling of identical files (big savings in server disk space), compression, and handling DHCP clients (eg, laptops that are intermittently connected to the network and whose IP addresses change). Features are summarized below. BackupPC is free software distributed under a GNU GP...

...Linux box (don't know if the tape drive is supported under Linux but i'm reading a ragazine article where they tested a Conner 250MB drive and it work),for apps,here's a few url: Ftape tools: http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/ Taper: http://www.e-survey.net.au/taper/ afbackup: http://www.muc.de/~af/software.html Amanda (probably overkill): http://www.amanda.org/ Alain Toussaint Return-Path: <duanepz@glis.net> Delivered-To: samba@lists.samba.org Received: from mail.glis.net (mail.glis.net [216.234.108.70]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A1F449A f...