[NTLUG:Discuss] Tape backup

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From: fredjame <fredjame at concentric.net>
To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Tape backup

>We do backups to disk, on the machine being backed up, gzipping the 
>files as we go.  Then we use an expect script to automate an ftp
session 
>to copy those backup files to hard drive on another machine on the 
>network, rotating them out by date (overwriting as they age out).
>
>Also, Knox has a product called Arkeia that looks pretty good. 
And the 
>University of Maryland has one called  AMANDA (The Advanced
*Maryland* 
>Automatic Network Disk Archiver), which is also good.
>
>

thanks