[wplug] Backup Software

[Ingimarson, Darin]

Check out Arkeia at www.arkeia.com. You can get a free (i.e. no cost)
version of Arkeia (called Arkeia Light) that is licensed for a single
tape drive on a single server plus 2 clients to try it out.

The cool thing about Arkeia is that it is easy to set file-level
restores based upon dates -- the software then tells you which 
tape sets to run off and fetch to restore the file image you asked
for. A downside is that (on the version I am using in-house) the 
tape pool management system is somewhat clunky.

All in all it seems to be somewhat easier to run than Veritas (we 
run that on our Windows servers -- our engineering server is RH 7.3).

   - darin



> I am looking for a good backup program to use in Linux 
> (RedHat 8.0). I
> want one that will do file level backups, also I would like 
> to have one
> that the log files are somewhat easy to review. I have 2 
> tape drives in
> 2 differnt RedHat 8.0 computers. One is a HP Dat24 SCSI and 
> the other is
> a HP Travan IDE drive.I am use to using Veritas BackupExec for my
> windows servers and would like to find something with at 
> least the same
> capabities as that.