A backup program that doesn't suck

[Christofer C. Bell]

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.
> 
> My question: Is there such an animal that does all of the above?

I believe you'll find everything you're looking for with AMANDA which can
be had from http://www.amanda.org/.

The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver.

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Chris