[KLUG Members] LAN backup solutions, anyone?

[Jeremy Leonard]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>If you have a NW box doing the backup the agent for Linux is free and 
>>comes with it. 
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> Does Novell's Linux offerings yet support a Linux box as the host?  Or
> does this only work on a NetWare kernel?

This isn't a Novell issue. It's a Veritas issue. Veritas doesn't have a 
Media Server that runs on Linux, last I checked. I haven't checked in a 
while.


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>>You have purchase remote agents for Windows.
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> Of course, every good vendor should do everything they can to make using
> Windows as expensive as possible.
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>>I'm now looking for ways to back up large amounts of data nightly 
>>though. I'm talking over 4tb. Some of my clients have that much and want 
>>a full backup nightly. I'm currently talking with Dell, HP, and Veritas 
>>to try to find a solution.
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> Don't forget IBM, they have some new SATA based SAN solutions that are
> nice.  And CoRAID is now making ATAoE storage devices that are very
> interesting.
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