[Techtalk] Backup solutions

[Soon-Yee Vidrio]

At 09:19 AM 4/25/02 -0400, James wrote:
>Anyone know of any easy tape backup solutions for Linux?  Preferably one
>that I won't have to mortgage my kidneys to get.
>
>It is for a mail server, if that means anything :)
>
>Also, what kind of backup policy does your organization (or you
>yourself) have?
>
>- James

I have good experiences so far with taper, which is free. It cannot span 
more than one tape, so if your backup exceeds one tape this solution will 
not work for you.  I have had success doing disaster recovery of an entire 
server  to another linux machine with taper before, whereas trying to do 
the same with Veritas Backup Exec(which costs $$$) using its unix agent 
failed miserably.

wildgrass