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  1. My short opinion - Two commercial systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Backing up a Linux (or Other *nix) System

    After the plethora of stinky windows based backup systems in the mid to late 90's . . .

    . . . I used Legato as both client and server, on both windows and linux. None of the possible combinations ever gave me any real joy. It backed stuff up, and test restores went ok, if you consider how it had to work o.k. I lived with it for 4 or 5 years.

    Found http://www.arkeia.com/. Never been happier. I run the server on linux. Using autoloader stacks. First set of *sane* backup configuration patterns I've had the pleasure to work with. I don't suggest the windows "JUI". Not my thing anyway, but still.. I look forward to them getting that part right, if they haven't already in the latest version.

    If your looking for non-commercial.. I just use tar and netcat similar to as described in posts above. I've used a few of the backup tools available via the Debian repository, but most really do *more* than what I really want for my personal systems.

  2. Arkeia by aspicht · · Score: 1 · on Backup Solutions for Small Tech Companies?
    http://www.arkeia.com/
    Arkeia has a very good solution for small businesses. It has native agents for Linux, Unix, Windows and MacOS. It can backup to tapes, managing tape libraries and autoloaders. It can also backup to disk. It has plugins to backup databases online so there is no need to stop the database.

    There are 2 products:

    • Arkeia Network Backup which is enterprise class product.
    • Arkeia Smart Backup which is designed for small businesses.

    Arkeia Smart Backup is free for 50GB of backed up data. And then it is $99 per 100 GB.
  3. Re:Dissing the BSDs, alas... by Noryungi · · Score: 1 · on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux

    While I am not a kernel expert, I strongly doubt the APIs of the BSD kernels are so different. This being said, if you support only the 3 'main' BSDs, that's only three different APIs. Which is reasonable.

    While the Linux kernel 'is fundamentally the same', you should also take into account the (sometime HUGE) differences between the Linux distributions, in terms of packaging, kernel versions and even kernel patches.

    Trust me, I know. I used to work for a company that supported a lot of Linux distributions and taking care of all these differences could be a pain in the neck, as this list tends to prove...

  4. Re:Dissing the BSDs, alas... by Noryungi · · Score: 1 · on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux

    While I am not a kernel expert, I strongly doubt the APIs of the BSD kernels are so different. This being said, if you support only the 3 'main' BSDs, that's only three different APIs. Which is reasonable.

    While the Linux kernel 'is fundamentally the same', you should also take into account the (sometime HUGE) differences between the Linux distributions, in terms of packaging, kernel versions and even kernel patches.

    Trust me, I know. I used to work for a company that supported a lot of Linux distributions and taking care of all these differences could be a pain in the neck, as this list tends to prove...

  5. Re:from the arkeia site by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 1 · on Arkeia Network Backup Agent Remote Access

    The testimonials list only has a few companies/organisations named, but they say they have 4,000 corporate-class clients. I sure hope Arkeia will notify their customers of this 'extra' product feature.

  6. from the arkeia site by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 5, Funny · on Arkeia Network Backup Agent Remote Access
    Arkeia.com

    I was looking for a Client-Server backup system that could offer me the possibility of backing up Unix/Linux and NT Servers on a single tape system.
    After long research my choice went to the Arkeia solution, because it has all the benefits I needed. Since then, it runs like a black box, without any need of additional Service.

    Tom Weber, IT Manager
    RTL TV (Europe)

    The backup system running like a black box might not be a good thing here eh?

  7. Re:Remote Applications by sammy+baby · · Score: 1 · on Apple Explains How to Run X11 on Mac OS X

    I'm backing up about half dozen servers in our ops room.

    In theory, I could use Arkeia to back up the Powerbook: the client runs on a bunch of different platforms, inlcuding Mac OS X. But I have an external hard drive I use to back up my laptop's system state. I'm just using the laptop as a very swank X terminal for that purpose.

  8. Re:Ran out of INODES. No really. by Penguinshit · · Score: 1 · on Debugging The Spirit Rover


    I did exactly this setting up a self-contained backup system for some co-located servers using Arkeia.

    The problem drove me batshit until I realized that, because Arkeia (at least that version, some 4 years ago) like to make a complete mirror of the remote filesystems being backed up (albeit files of zero byte size), the backup server was running out of inodes and crashing although the reported disk usage on the /usr filesystem was nowhere near 100%.

    I re-make the filesystems and re-load everything on the backup server.

  9. Re:OpenSource Backup Solution?? by SpaFF · · Score: 2, Informative · on Advice on Remote Backup Services?

    Arkeia has a nice backup suite that while not open source does have a free (as in beer) edition. When I was evaluating it, it seemed to work great with my ADIC library.

    I would be using that now except for that our company already had a license for the Veritas backupexec software for windows so I was able to just download the linux client software for free.

  10. Take a look at Arkeia by sobiloff · · Score: 1 · on What Software Do You Use for Unix Backups?

    Yes, Arkeia is commercial, but sometimes you get what you pay for. Arkeia has a decent UI (but you can do everything from the command prompt, too), and it can backup just about any flavor of UNIX (including OS X) and Windows. It works with any SCSI tape device, including tape libraries. It embraces the standard full/incremental backup paradigm, so its pretty straight-forward to migrate to Arkeia from dump, etc. It has features that expedite disaster recovery (full-box rebuild), and can do on-line backups of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, etc.

    Note that Arkeia offers a free Linux version if you only need to backup the local machine and a couple of clients--perfect for the SOHO user.

    And, no, I don't work for them--I just used the software for a couple of years when I was responsible for a tiny server farm. Arkeia always worked, unlike some of the tempermental WinNT boxes I had to support...

  11. Take a look at Arkeia by sobiloff · · Score: 1 · on What Software Do You Use for Unix Backups?

    Yes, Arkeia is commercial, but sometimes you get what you pay for. Arkeia has a decent UI (but you can do everything from the command prompt, too), and it can backup just about any flavor of UNIX (including OS X) and Windows. It works with any SCSI tape device, including tape libraries. It embraces the standard full/incremental backup paradigm, so its pretty straight-forward to migrate to Arkeia from dump, etc. It has features that expedite disaster recovery (full-box rebuild), and can do on-line backups of MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, etc.

    Note that Arkeia offers a free Linux version if you only need to backup the local machine and a couple of clients--perfect for the SOHO user.

    And, no, I don't work for them--I just used the software for a couple of years when I was responsible for a tiny server farm. Arkeia always worked, unlike some of the tempermental WinNT boxes I had to support...

  12. Arkeia by Khopesh · · Score: 2 · on What Software Do You Use for Unix Backups?

    Arkeia is a powerful one, but not free software. there are two versions, a free one for small offices and a more powerful costly one. ...quick browse of the site does not reveal the free version, i don't think it exists anymore for 5.x (maybe i am not recalling correctly).

    anyway, arkeia can back up windows, linux, unix, and mac osx.

  13. Re:Depends on the niche by dan_bethe · · Score: 2 · on Shareware and Unix?
    Your software should be unique, irreplaceable and of a very good quality. It should also occupy a specific niche unreacheable for large corporations.
    Another example is Arkeia which in addition to your criteria, also requires tons of quality assurance. It's an enterprise backup software solution, so they have labs with all mainstream backup hardware to test it on. That's expensive and difficult. And they have a VAR program with excellent members.

    So basically they came from the other direction, coming from the high end and reaching down. They're producing a major high quality app that would traditionally be relegated to being produced by enterprise for enterprise, which does rival the enterprise competition in quality and support, but also porting it to most OS's and releasing a time-unlimited shareware version. They also open sourced an ANSI C version of the most basic 'tar'-like version of their software for emergencies and for future-proofing. That ANSI C client is prepended to each tape so that you can retrieve it in an emergency with a bare OS and 'dd'. It rules.

  14. Re:Backup? by Tyrall · · Score: 2 · on Maxtor Announces 80GB Platters
    I've gone with a OnStream ADR50 drive. 50GB compressed per tape will set you back a couple hundred for the drive and about 150 or so for a three pack of tapes.
    Bought mine on eBay and went for the ADR equipment, not the newer more expensive (but faster) ADR2, and ended up getting 250GB backup space for $300 or so.

    4MB/s transfer speed isn't too shabby either for a cheap tape drive, and the system works perfectly under Linux with Arkeia, who have just released version 5 of a damn good enterprise-level backup system. Their current free-for-3-linux-server version (4.2) is not quite as good, but they've said version 5 free will be available soon.

  15. Software by drauh · · Score: 1 · on Making Users Back Up Important Data?

    Get something like Legato Networker, or Arkeia.

    No amount of coercion of users will guarantee their making backups.

  16. Re:Use Retrospect by srvivn21 · · Score: 2 · on Making Users Back Up Important Data?

    Arkeia is another (IMNSHO) good option. Small unobtrusive client, good control on the server, fairly cross platform capable, reasonable licencing terms.

  17. 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

  18. Arkeia! by torment · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

    Check out Arkeia here.

  19. Arkeia works fine for me by lydon · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

    I use a commercial backup software called arkeia. You can get it from http://www.arkeia.com/.

    There is also a free for personal use version for linux server/clients. Just go to http://www.arkeia.com/downloadfree.html .

    Regards,
    Oliver.

  20. Arkeia works fine for me by lydon · · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: >2GB Backup Software for Linux?

    I use a commercial backup software called arkeia. You can get it from http://www.arkeia.com/.

    There is also a free for personal use version for linux server/clients. Just go to http://www.arkeia.com/downloadfree.html .

    Regards,
    Oliver.