Re: backup programs
On: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 12:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Max writes:
>
> I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it
> cannot append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run
> (imagine putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store
> 24GB and then using a brand new tape the next night). Is there
> another package with a similar level of sophistication and features
> as Amanda that can append to tapes? How does afbackup stack up?
> Any others?
afbackup uses the whole tape, requesting a new one as necessary.[1] I
use it for my regular full and incremental backups and it worked very
well so far.
The current version is 3.1beta1-1 and available in slink, main, utils.
You need afbackup-client too.
Torsten
Footnotes:
[1] It uses a backup set in a similar way to amanda.
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