On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:22 -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
On 5/30/05, Gérard Milmeister gemi@bluewin.ch wrote:
I am looking for backup software for DDS tapes. Apart from tar, star, cpio and their relatives I found taper (taper.sourceforge.net), which seems perfect for my needs (single system backup). However this software hasn't had an update for over 2 years, and since it uses a non-standard (i.e., non-tar, non-cpio) format for its backup, it is uncertain that backups will be retrievable in the mid to far future. Suggestions for current solutions similar to taper would be welcome.
I use arkeia. It spans tapes, and there is a free version for linux users. If you just have a single drive with no library, you should be good to go. You have to purchase a licence if you have a library with a built in changer.
Thanks to all for the suggestions. The free version Arkeia is indeed very capable (also a little complicated: drivepacks, tapepacks, savepacks...). There is also a simple C program to extract the archive in emergency cases. I would be nice if there was an open source implementation using the same format (arkeia has quite an ugly interface). At the moment I still use taper as I am not sure that the binary only Arkeia will run after several kernel and libc updates...