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  1. September 16th, 2002, 08:54 AM #1
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    GUI based backup program?

    I have a small server setup running Redhat Linux 6.1, I also have a Travan tape drive installed.
    I am able to use it via the command line to back up to /dev/nht0 and it works really well. But the built in backup program called Kdat does not work, I have set it up to point to the device and have also setup default tape drive. But every time I go to mount the tape it tells me that there is no tape in the drive.

    Is there any other GUI based backup software?
    Thanks in advance.
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  2. September 17th, 2002, 07:35 AM #2
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    I use taper, it's gui based and not to bad either, try taper -T as root to see if its installed on your system, do a man taper also, there are quite a few options that can be passed to it from the command line when starting it up, eg taper -i (incremental backup) etc.

    Search http://www.linuxapps.com for it, tried posting the direct link but it dosent seem to work properly on my pc today !!!!!

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  3. September 17th, 2002, 08:27 AM #3
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    Thanks for the link I will have a look around on that site.
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    You might also look into kbackup.
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    Thanks mike, I will download that one and have a look.
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    Also rami3 I checked out the site that you posted but everytime I went to download anything it couldn't find the page.
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    backup software

    Hi people,

    There a comercial backup aplication for linux called Arkeia who recently has done a free version of their software. The Arkeia Free version is a complete version of the Arkeia solution for 1 Linux server attached to a single-tape tape drive (SCSI) and 2 Type-2 client machines (i.e. Linux, FreeBSD/BSD or a MS-Windows workstation.

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    backup software

    Here you have the link: http://www.arkeia.com/arkeiafree.html
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  9. September 19th, 2002, 03:13 AM #8
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    Thanks for the link martillorojo but my tape drive is IDE, pitty because that backup software looked good.
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    Found the Taper Homepage Yuri, you can download it from there.

    Also found this software list when I was searching for taper, there are 44 different backup utils listed with homepage or download links, that should do the job.

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  12. September 20th, 2002, 05:42 AM #10
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    Thanks for the Link rami3, I will have a look at the website and download taper, and possible Kbackup.
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