This article discusses linux tape backup software. Linux is a great operating system though I remember about seven years when many system architects and their short sighted companies would not implement a linux solution. These days companies cannot get enough linux based systems and the growth of Redhat and other similar companies has been phenomenal. I digress lets get back to the linux tape backup solutions.
Tape backup has been used since before hard disk backup and the technology is both stable and reliable though not as quick as a direct backup. Two of the main tape backup solutions fro linux are Amanda and Bacula. These are described in a nutshell as follows:
Amanda is a backup system that allows the administrator of a LAN to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large capacity tape drive. AMANDA uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix.
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Either solution will work to backup and restore your data. In the end which solution you go for depends very much on your particular requirements.
