Jack: There are few commercial backup programs available, and the one I've used for years since my SCO era is Lone-Tar. It includes bootable recovery from CD, where it will recover with a minimal system that lets your last master tape re-create everything onto a blank disk - just start it and walk away. It will also support DVD writing for backups and allow you to use its own software compression. I work with accounting systems, and those files are almost 10-1 compressible, so a DVD+RW that holds 8.9 GB can be used for huge amounts of data. It has both character menus and a GUI screen for X, with easy utilities to configure cron jobs, email alerts, and device setup. It is pretty end-user friendly. Through resellers you can get it for $299 US last time I sold it. In interest of full disclosure, I also am one of their resellers, but since I recommended it often enough to people, I decided to supply it. Scully -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Jack Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:41 PM To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: System backup Ok, booting from tape may not be possible I agree. But what I need is commercially supported backup solution that uses a tape drive to hold the bulk of the backup. This is for customer we sale our application to. We want to be able to recommend something. We do NOT want to provide any scripts or other programs for them to do their system backup with because we do not want to be directly responsible for it. Thanks: Jack Allen -----Original Message----- From: Steven Jones [mailto:Steven.Jones@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:20 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: System backup Backups use Tar. Bootable tapes not possible, but dvd-r's would be with a rh kickstart system on the dvd and a script to do the tar restore as one hit. Regards Steven -----Original Message----- From: Allen, Jack [mailto:Jack.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:37 a.m. To: 'Redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx' Subject: System backup I am sure this has been asked many times and I searched the web and got a lot of hits. But I though I would ask again here to see what is recommended and why. In other words tell me what you like and which ones to stay away from. I need something that is basically simple that writes to a direct attached tape drive. It would be nice if the backup was bootable to be able to do a complete bare metal restore. Thanks: Jack Allen -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
