I called them today and they claimed that
the Retrospect Workgroup 5.1 will not backup Linux Servers. They claimed I had
to upgrade to the Server version. Do you know if this is true?
The reason I ask is the last time I called
the salesperson claimed that Retrospect Workgroup 5.1 would run on a Linux
machine.
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Dickenson
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
3:51 PM
To: RedHat Mail List
Subject: Re: Backup management
software recommendations required
Retrospect
for the Mac will also back up Linux systems now. Dantz recently released a new
version.
--
Jim Dickenson
From: "Mailing
Lists" <rich-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:58:18
-0600
To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Backup management
software recommendations required
We are using Retrospect Multi-Server 6.5 and it
backs up our Windows and Linux servers. There is an rpm and tar version of the
client for Linux. The Host machine does run on Windows though.
Richard Humphrey
System Administrator
MultiCam LP
972-929-4070 X2408
-----Original Message-----
From:
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On Behalf Of Donald Tyler
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004
9:02 AM
To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Backup management
software recommendations required
Hi,
We have recently expanded our network rather quickly
and have added 5 RedHat 9 servers to our single Mac XServe Server.
We used to use a piece of software for managing
network backups called Retrospect, which worked perfectly. But they
don’t seem to have any software for Linux.
What I am hoping is that someone can recommend a
piece of software I can use to automate and remotely manage the backup of
all six servers, preferably using a GUI interface.
Retrospect worked in such a way that you installed
client software on each machine, and then install a single server with
the control software. Using this method, you did not have to set up any
kind of file sharing etc as the client software would back itself up onto
the server. It could be automated and I would get error messages from
both the clients and the servers if a client had not checked in for its
regular backup.
It would be ideal if I could get something similar,
but it is not essential. The only essential features are that its
automated and manageable over a network.
Thanks in advance.
Donald Tyler
