OT: Tape less Backup System

[D. Thomas Podnar]

: Jay R. Ashworth Wrote
: On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 09:23:27PM -0500, Bill Vermillion wrote:
: > On Sat, Jan 22 19:46 , Fairlight moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
: > change to take effect, and then said:" 
: > > With neither thought nor caution, J. P. Radley blurted:
: > 
: > > > : BackupEDGE 2.1 Personal License ... for non-commercial use ONLY.
: > 
: > > > It's $90.00, and with the new ability to ftp the archive to
: > > > any storage device on the Network, does not even require a
: > > > tape or DVD drive.
: > 
: > > FTP is pretty passe these days. As much as people complain
: > > about telnet vs ssh, I'm surprised the same argument isn't
: > > being made about ftp vs scp or even sftp. Same arguments exist.
: > 
: > But not for BE. The BE 2.1 can run plain ftp or ftps. The ftp
: > engine is built into the program. And you can encrypt the network
: > link, the archive, or both.
: > 
: > You probably need to look at the full specs.  It also is designed
: > to backup multiple systems to a common NAS device is you wish.
: 
: I saw that, and (also without reading the full spec) said "why won't it
: support scp?"
: 
: Tom?  Does it?
: 
: Cheers,
: -- jra
: -- 
: Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra at baylink.com

Sigh. It is amazing what you can put into a product, how much time and
money you can expend, and then immediately get the "but why can't it do ..."?
question.

scp doesn't have the full command set necessary to do what we do. And it
copies only full files.

BackupEDGE can manipulate the archive directory with the full ftp protocol,
It can read the labels from remote archives to rebuild its control file, size
remote archives, and restore ONLY the file/files you want from a remote
archive, without sending the full archive back across the network/internet.

Building ftp/ftps into the backup engine provides a very elegant solution
to a difficult problem, if you understand all the potential things that
backup software needs to do.

By far most backups will be across the local network, for which ftp backups
are well suited. ftps is an excellent protocol for remote backups, and
can be further enhanced by using BackupEDGE archive encryption to provide
a very robust and secure solution.

Tom Podnar
Microlite