wanted: lightweight backup solution

[Derek Broughton]

Kristian Rink wrote:

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> Folks;
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> 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.
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> 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.
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dar / kdar?  I have no idea if they work for tapes but work nicely with
CD/DVD
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derek