Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software
that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with
"Amanda", but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining
to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants?
Thanks,
Frank
> I currently work for a large university. We currently have a
> Very Large tape library system (a walk-in model, terrabites of storage,
> hundreds of tapes, blah blah blah)
>
> We currently have robotics software (unitree) and some "interesting"
> home-grown custom jobbies.
> Unfortunately, they are rather ugly. So I'd like to be able to migrate our
> backups to something a little more sane, and a little more widely used.
>
> Given the amount of data, and number of hosts, and our limited funding for
> software, getting a license for veritas or legato backup software, etc.
> is going to be out of the question. So I need a free solution suggested.
>
> My ideal backup solution would handle:
>
>
> 1. multiple incoming backup streams, ideally multiplexing then to a single
> tape or virtual "restoral device", for streaming speed purposes, etc.
>
> 2a. know about interfacing with unitree directly, OR
>
> 2b. be flexible about "save all the data to a pseudo-'file' which is
> actually managed by HSM
>
> 3. be able to handle restore requests along the lines of,
>
> "Give me all the files in directory X, on machine Y, at date
> YYY/MM/DD:HH/MM/SS"
>
> and pull in the appropriate files from the last full dump, and all
> relevant incrementals.
>
> And if there was a level0, level2, level3, and level4 dump, and
> the most recent versions of the file(s) were on level3,
> it would not have to go through the level0 and level2 dumps
> to find out the data is not there.
>
>
> 4. it must be able to handle Very Large Filesystems
> (I'm not sure we have any terrabytes filesystems... Yet.
> But we probably will have them soon)
>
> 5. It should be able to handle restoring Solaris ACLs
>
>
>
>
> It is not neccessary to have any kind of non-root-user interface.
> Restores are handled by the sysadmins only.
>
> Of all of the above, I think that everything except #2 is mandatory.
>
> Am I dreaming, or is there anything out there for free that can actually
> handle all of this?
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