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  1. Re:backup programs for Linux by Clith · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Heterogeneous Network Backups w/Linux?
    This is simply a URL-enabled version of the informative posting, all URL's verified and typo-checked. :-)

    Freeware

    http://www.amanda.org/ - Amanda

    ftp://ftp.zn-gmbh.com/pub/linux/ - afbackup

    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ - Burt

    http://www.estinc.com/features.html - BRU

    http://www.estinc.com/qsdr.html - Quickstart

    Commercial

    http://www.unitrends.com/bp.html - Backup Professional

    http://www.unitrends.com/ctar.html - CTAR

    http://www.unitrends.com/ctarnet.html - CTAR:NET

    http://www.unitrends.com/pcpara.html - PC ParaChute

    http://www.arkeia.com/ - Arkeia

    http://www.legato.com/Pro ducts/html/legato_networker.html - Legato Networker Linux client

    http://feral.com/networker.html - Legato Networker server

  2. Another vote for Amanda by Galvanick+Lucipher · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Heterogeneous Network Backups w/Linux?

    I have to speak up for Amanda - it's good for you. - http://www.amanda.org/

  3. Amanda by Farce+Pest · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Heterogeneous Network Backups w/Linux?

    Try Amanda. It uses dump or tar on UNIX, and I think there may be some clients for Windoze. Also look for BURT on Freshmeat. That one looked interesting, requires TCL.

  4. Are you writing straight to tape? by -Surak- · · Score: 5 · on Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

    Tar and others should work fine as long as you are writing directly to tape, instead of to a temp file. Linux has a 2GB (2^31-1) maximum file size, so if your backup software is trying to spool to disk before streaming to tape, it may fail.

    Amanda handles this by splitting the disk files into 2 GB chunks and reassembling them when it writes to tape. It also deals well with network backups. The filesystem side backend is dump or GNU TAR, so it's fairly standard in that regard. I've had no problems with 8+ GB filesystems using Amanda.

    I would not recomend using e2fsdump - AFAIK, it's still beta, and I had problems with the interactive restore and some other issues. Because it accesses the filesystem at a lower level than standard file access (I believe), I'd be careful with trusting important backups to it.
    TAR definately a safer choice.

    BTW, I have a question myself... does anyone know how to get TAR (or something else) to restore permissions on symlinks? Typically it doesn't matter, but Apache uses symlink permissions for the SymlinksIfOwnersMatch directive, and every time I restore or copy a web partition, I have to go through and fix all the links that are now root owned.