Hello kind people,

OK, I know this is not for this list; However, reading all these mails on the topic of filesystems, I thought that it's a good place to ask about backup software on linux.

Here's what I have. It's an HP 230 Ultrium LTO 1 SCSI backup mechanism (tape streamer to be exact). I'm supposed to hook it up today with an adaptec AHA-2940 controller to a gigabyte mainboard running Ubuntu Server 10.04.

Does anyone have a config close to this one ? What kind of software would you chaps recommend ? dd ? Bacula ?? Other ??

This mechanism is supposed to grab backups from the same machine running it (the tape streamer), which is an ubuntu server version 10.04 with three SATA disks and maybe some stuff remotely (through the local network that is), from a couple of windows 7 / windows xp machines. Also 100Gb on every tape is not going to be enough and it looks like I will have to swap tapes during the process.

Thank you all for your time and patience,

Best Regards,

spyros

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