20 Jan
2002
20 Jan
'02
6:58 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
What I'm after, of course, is scheduled backup
that doesn't require
any human interaction at all, other than daily removal of the backup
media from the previous backup.
Get a Mac! Had to be said, even if it's more or less irrelevant here.
Actually, the recommendation of smbfs mounting Windows shares from the
Win98 system over the network is a really good idea. At least if you've
got a spare PC with a NIC and SCSI for the tape device, and if you're
looking to do this cheaply. In fact, the idea is so good, there should
probably be a single disk bootable backup server solution that works
like this. It'd be trivial to setup automated backup schedules using
the cron daemon.
The only backup software I've administered that works well with PCs
would be Veritas NetBackup and Tivoli's TSM (previously IBM's ADSM).
Of course that was with backup client software running on the PCs and
Unix based backup servers that actually performed the tape I/O. Both of
these solutions are well out of the price and feature range of your
average home users.
-brian.