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  Sitback can do many types of backup and archiving..

  • Make a backup of the whole disk to a tape
  • Make a backup of selected files and directory's
  • Make backup to multiple tapes
  • Create x archives all having the same, requested, size.
  • Sitback includes an archive id in every archive, and maintaines a local database with lists of wich files is where and when they have been put there..
  • Sitback may run after a schedule so you dont have to start the backup each afternoon, just insert a new tape every morning.
  • Sitback will give you a warning if there is a problem. You can get a printed report each morning, or having a report-file on the server updated. A log is also kept on the server so that you may find out exactly what was wrong in the case of an error.



Sitback can backup files from almost any location..

  • Local filesystems
  • NFS volumes mounted on the local VFS
  • SMB shares mounted on the local VFS
  • FLoppy, Zip, Jazz, LS, etc..



Sitback can backup to almost any location..

  • Local filesystems
  • NFS volumes mounted on the local VFS
  • SMB shares mounted on the local VFS
  • Floppy, Zip, Jazz, LS, etc..
  • Any standard SCSI tape
  • Any tapedrive supported by ftape
  • Pipes or sockets, so that you can use sitback from scripts or other programs.



Sitback only requires Gnu Tar and gzip, and it will run on almost any version and flavour of Gnu Linux and other Unices supported by Gnu automake/autoconf and gcc
 
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