wanted: lightweight backup solution

[Kristian Rink]

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Folks;

after messing around with a bunch of tools and technologies and not
being completely pleased so far, a short question on how you do get
these things done. 

I need to find a lightweight, straightforward solution to dump bigger
amounts of data to tape. Setup: We do have a centralized backup server
for our DMS, which by now houses around 600GB of active data which
should be dumped to tape. The machine has a Tandberg LTO-2 autochanger
attached to it, and currently I do backups using tar/gz together with
mt and mtx controlled by some shell-scripts, wich works well.

However, I want to replace this by some solution that makes spanning
dumps across multiple tapes easier. By now I tried amanda and bacula,
two very powerful tools offering way too much functionality for what I
need. Requirements for the tool of "my dreams" are rather simple:

- - dump files from a local file system to tape

- - allow for splitting of large (full) dumps to multiple tapes using the
  autoloader

- - provide an easy way of making full and non-full (daily changes?) dumps
  of the whole file system to tape.

Ideas, anyone? What are you using to handle your backup needs? :)

TIA and bye,
Kristian

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