Lookin for Backup Software SCO Openserver

[jdssco]

Im looking for other inexpensive/shareware backup software. The Ctar/Lonetar -is just to expensive for what is does? We all know thwe challages with TAR and CPIO, when used for a full system restoe... What about Super Tar, is it any good, just searching for options.


John

 

[edfair]

LoneTar or BackupEdge are worth the money.
You could use the shareware "cdrecord" if your data wouldn't overflow a CD but there is no verification.
The systems I'm supporting use Edge, compressing onto a hard drive with 3 weeks stored, and a daily backup to CD of the previous day's compressed data and programs.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[motoslide]

I agree 100% with Ed. It's like insurance. You spend your money and hope you never need to use it. But, one time of calling the LoneTar folks when your system is dead and dozens of users are due to arrive at their desks in a couple of hours is far better than telling the CEO that you saved him a couple of hundred dollars a few years back, but now his business must wait while you regenerate the O/S.
I guess it depends upon how vital the UNIX box is to the business. If it's important, spend the money.

 

[edfair]

If it valuable to the boss you might want to consider a redundant system sitting ready for a data restore to go live.
I set one medical practice up with duals, primary backed up at 4AM and the tape was pulled and restored on the backup machine at 9AM. They were never more than 24 hours out of date and a swap to the backup was about 4 minutes and 5 cables. Used it 3 times in 4 years but the grief it saved was worth the money the doctors paid.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[sjcrane]

We are using BAKBONE NetVault for SCO Openserver 5.06/5.07

Works well and we are backing up millions of small files through a NetApp filer. Takes time but the NDMP module works well.