I have a new LTO-2 drive here, a 400 Gb capacity, and the challenge to design a backup algorithm for a mission-critical groupware server. This is a single system, so no network backup... I have 10 tapes and was thinking of doing weekly full backups and daily incremental snapshots. This will keep backups around for 10 weeks, and we could get a new tap each month to keep one around from the past. Of course, I would be happy for advice from more experience here. My main question is: which software to use. tar will take ages to do incremental and won't be able to do so without enough scratch space. taper seems way too interactive. amanda seems to be able to do it all, but it's highly complex. afbackup also seems to be able to do it all, but it's very complex too. I also have netvault, but the installation already filled me with anger, and I hate commercial software. So I appreciate any thoughts. Are there documents comparing amanda and afbackup? Which one would you recommend? And are there any other invaluable hints you might want to offer? -- Martin F. Krafft Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: krafft@ailab.ch University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)1.63-54323 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.20 http://ailab.ch/people/krafft CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! it said "needs windoze 98 or better," so i installed linux.
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