Tina Siegenthaler wrote:
> Hi list
>
> Thanks for all the feedback to my question about Symantec Backup Exec.
> I'm sorry to bother you with another question regarding backup, but as I
> mentioned in my last thread, we're in kind of a hurry, or I'd do much
> more research and testing myself...
> The BRU software looks quite OK for me. Do you have any experience with
> which tape drives it will work? Tolis group states on ther website about
> BRU that it will work with (nearly) all hardware,
BRU (backup restore utility) is essentially tar. (Tape Archive/Restore)
it's a dropin replacement for tar. Pretty much all the
tar commands work with bru, one just replaces tar with bru.
Plus, they wrap lots of other stuff around the core executable for
server daemons, client agents and the like.
As a 'drop in' tar replacement, it works with tape drives the
same way tar does. for this reason SCSI is the best way to
go. bru will work with any SCSI tape drive/loader 'out of the box'.
My recommendation is to give Tolis group a call, and tell them
your intention. They've been doing OSX since the beginning,
(longer than Retrospect in that regard) and are very focused
on their Mac offerings. They are good folks, many of the issues
folks have and complain about may very have been solved if
anyone had bothered to pick up the phone and called.
I've used the software for about 10 years now. I've been really
angry at it a number of times. Called 'em up and had everything working
within a few moments, feeling really silly for not having thought
of the solution myself. :)
I did curse them for a long time a couple of years back, because
I was getting sketchy results from my tape loader, (a VXA packetloader),
over a number of weekends. I went though a pile of scsi cards,
changed cables, terminators, even switched out servers, built
custom kernels, etc. What fixed it? Checked the box on the server
GUI that said 'Drive needs eject'. had I called, this would have
never been at issue. My own fault.
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