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.
No, not at all, I have no idea why you suspect this, but you're
grossly misinformed.
For a start read Tolis' papers on the difference between how tar
operates and hwo BRU operates. Then maybe actually crack open some BRU
docs and you'll see that BRU's main features revolve around managing
archives and job control and handling tape drives and libraries.
If all you want is to write tarballs to tape just use their TapeTools.
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)
Um... again, no and no. You're misinformed.
-dhan
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Dan Shoop
Computer Scientist
iWiring / U.S. Technical Services
