[LUG] Tape Backups

[Dave Trudgian <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi all,

Does anyone have any experience of such backup programs as taper and amanda 
for backing up to tape?

My current backup goes somethings like this:

- - FIles are stored on my server which amongst other things serves /home over 
nfs.

- - Tape backup of /home using a simple script and afio at 4am every night that 
I put a tape in (at least once a week). 

- - tar.gz backup of /home to my workstation's backup partition at tea time 
every day.

I'm going to start running out of tape capacity for a full backup in the near 
future. I have a DDS3 drive at 12Gb native capacity and don't really want to 
upgrade this so I'm searching for some software that will sort out 
incremental backups for me that can run un-attended. I'll do a full backup 
say every month when it's convenient for me to swap tapes.

I'm very paranoid about backups at the moment, due to coming towards the end 
of a large dissertation project totalling about 1.2Gb of files. Any opinions 
on software would be gratefully received. I'm looking for the simplest 
solution that will give me full and incremental backups with verification.

Thanks,

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Dave Trudgian - Cornish Dave
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[w] www.trudgian.net
[e] dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[j] trudgiad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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