Recommendations for Commercial Backup packages?

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, at 8:56pm, p.lussier at comcast.net wrote:
> For small-medium shops you can't beat the price/performance of AMANDA.

  The only problem with Amanda that I have is that it cannot handle a
filesystem which exceeds the size of your tape drive.  Has this been solved
yet?  (We've got a client with a 500 GB data store and a robotic tape
library.)

  Just in case somebody asks: Yes, we tried GNU tar's multi-volume option.  
It actually worked pretty well, until we hit a bug: If GNU tar happens to be
writing a file with a "long file name" when it spans tapes, then the archive
is corrupted.  (!!!)

  We've been using NovaStor's NovaNet on that system with adequate results.  
We have discovered that certain operations in the UI cause the backup
service to hang, which isn't exactly a confidence booster.  This appears to
be a bug in the Linux service; it doesn't happen on their Windows stuff.  
But as long as we avoid those UI functions, it works well.  Again, not
ideal, but the best we found so far, without shelling out thousands of
dollars on backup software.

  I've brought this up here before, but it's been awhile, and I'm wondering
if anything has changed.  If not, please ignore this message.  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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