Backup software

[Tom Buskey]

>
> I'm in the process of setting up a system that will need to do local
> data backup to tape.  My immediate reaction was that I probably wanted
> to use Amanda, since the client is interested in going with an open
> source solution.  Having not played with tapes in over 6 years, I'm
> looking to folks on the list for suggestions and/or help before I go too
> far down any one particular path.
>
> Is Amanda going to be overkill for backing up just a single system?  The
> tape drive is a Sony AIT drive - is this going to be a pain to configure
> with Amanda?  Is there another piece of software I should look at
> instead?  Would just a plain 'ole tar with a little bit of shell
> scripting suffice?
>
> Experiences, anecdotes, diatribes, etc all happily accepted.  8)
>

The AIT will look like any other drive.  No problem.

How much data do you have to backup?  If it will fit on 1 tape, a simple
dump script should suffice.  AIT-2 is 100GB(?) and more with compressions.