Been looking for decent Free (Open Source) backup tools. Surprisingly, there don’t seem to be (m)any. I’m just looking for something simple that will have easy setup, mixing and matching full and incremental backups across (automatic spanning) tapes.
- Taper – has a nice curses interface, but the stable 6.9 version only supports 4GB tapes, and v7 has been in alpha since last year (last release was May 2002)
- Amanda – I’ll use this as a last resort, but it’s just too… much, I guess, for what I want, more likely, I’ll glue together a perl script
- Flexbackup – decent looking perl script. Giving it a try.
- KBackup – a big bash script. will try it out.
- Sync2NAS – Windows mirroring tool
Guides:
- Linux Magazine: Linux Backup Primer
- Antipope: Backup tools
- Tape Autoloader on 2.4 Linux – doesn’t cover spanning
Storix has a free Personal Edition, although it has an X GUI, which makes it sort of useles for me. Arkeia Light looks promising. It’s a full version of their software but limited to 1 server and 2 clients.