REQD: Backup-to-tape software

[Mark Carter]

My office currently uses Microsoft Backup on Win 2000 to backup the disk
to an HP Surestore Dat 40 tape. Needless to say, the Microsoft offering
is pants. I'm looking for a suitable replacement. Any suggestions?

BTW, I've considered Karen Replicator, and looked at all of the other
backup utilities in the Snapfiles freeware section, but found nothing
suitable.

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

My office currently uses Microsoft Backup on Win 2000 to backup the disk
to an HP Surestore Dat 40 tape. Needless to say, the Microsoft offering
is pants. I'm looking for a suitable replacement. Any suggestions?

BTW, I've considered Karen Replicator, and looked at all of the other
backup utilities in the Snapfiles freeware section, but found nothing
suitable.

Didn't the DAT come with some software? (I haven't bought one for a
long while, so I may be out of date on this.)

That said, what's on the HP support site?

Also, when I was administering a Windows Server-based network, I found
the Windows backup program to be perfectly adequate, once I learned how
to drive it from the command line and avoid the GUI. Of course, this
was on NT 3.51 and NT 4.0. (If I had the batch files, I'd offer to send
them to you, but I didn't snarf a copy.)

The only free tool that I know of that is a "real" backup tool is
Amanda, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver,
<http://www.amanda.org/>, but it's for UNIX boxes in that it expects to
run from/on a UNIX box, but will back up Windows boxes via SAMBA.

Of course, there are the usual bloody awful payware choices, ArcServe,
and I can't remember the other one today, aren't I lucky!!!

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[Mark Carter]

Didn't the DAT come with some software?

That's what you'd think, isn't it? I know it's what I'd think. Alsas,
the answer appears to be: "not really". HP did provide driver stuff, but
as regards actual backup software, not a sausage.

Also, when I was administering a Windows Server-based network, I found
the Windows backup program to be perfectly adequate, once I learned how
to drive it from the command line and avoid the GUI.

Backups are automated from the command line. However, I think that MS
Backup is a bit lacking in cataloging, and stuff.

Of course, there are the usual bloody awful payware choices,

Ah yes, "payware". My boss likes this word even less than certain
freeware purists of this site.