A backup program that doesn't suck

[Dustin J. Decker]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Randy Rathbun wrote:

> I am searching for a tape backup program. I have BRU that came with Caldera
> 2.3, and taper, and kdat, along with Lone Tar and pro backup (or something
> like that) and am getting a bit disgusted. Here are my requirements:
> 
> Free (as in beer)
> Tape catalogs
> Network backups
> backup verification.
> 
> Well, BRU that I have does verification and is free, but it does not keep a
> catalog nor allow me to back up a networked machine since it is the freebie
> version. Taper is free but it pretty much stinks and it barfs on me if
> things get too big. Kdat does everything but verify, Lone Tar and Pro
> Backup are not free, but they do catalogs, network backups, and
> verification. 
> 
> My question: Is there such an animal that does all of the above?
You might want to truck over to knox-software.com (if I've spelled and
hyphenated correctly) to take a look at Arkia...  
Dustin

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