[Gllug] tar.gz

Vincent AE Scott gllug at codex.net
Sat Feb 2 20:40:19 UTC 2002


Simon Stewart(sms at lateral.net)@Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:58:40PM +0000:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:48:19PM +0000, Martyn Drake wrote:
> > On 01 Feb 2002 16:32:54 +0000 John Hearns wrote:
> > 
> > > It is a commercial product, but is free (as in beer) 
> > > for one Linux server and 2 client machines.
> > 
> > I agree that Arkeia is excellent (and free if you have a Linux server with
> > a single SCSI tape drive), although it was bloody expensive when buying
> > the license(s) for the software and the tape library that I used to use
> > with it.  
> > 
> > These days I tend to use Amanda, free and not too difficult to get up and
> > running across a network.  Amanda will support just about anything - and
> 
> So far most of the suggestions have been for SCSI tape solutions or
> CDR. I've got a server here with an enormous disk[1] that I want to
> use for backing up the other servers nightly. A tape dump will be made
> from this about once a week, but we've got an awful lot of data, and I
> can't afford a tape changer.... 
> 
> Any suggestions?

but more cheap disk's, LVM mirror them, and stick em on a another
computer?

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