Lionel Barrow wrote: > Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a > reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going > to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I > want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and > the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process. > Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web > links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys. > Salty We have been using BackupEDGE from Microlite (www.microlite.com) for three years now. It will allow you to setup a cron job at night (or whenever) to do the backups. We have it on about 50 customer machines and it works well. My favorite feature is that it will create recover media. You can create bootable CD/DVD/floppies and with a single tape restore the system from bare metal. It creates partitions and filesytems and everything necessary to get the system back to the state it was when the tape was made. We build SCSI and ATA hardware RAID systems and there are times when human intervention causes the RAID system to be destroyed. We have had customers back in production in under an hour with these bare metal restores. One caution is that BackupEDGE does not support SW RAID at this time. If you go to their web site you can download the latest version and run it in demo mode for about 60 days. If you like it, it will cost about $200 per machine. You will need to register it to use it after 60 days. I think they sell a $100 one time personal copy. They have good tech support as well. It's easy to setup, it works in real life situations (it has saved me many hours of late night support time) so I am very happy with it. Check out their online documentation to see just how powerful the product is. There are others out there. Do a google search on LoneTar, BRU and Mondo to name just a few. You could also check out Amanda which comes with the OS. Thanks, Frank -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
