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    im currently looking for backup software that supports tape drives. this is not looking too good :_I (i.imgur.com)
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    [–] FinalBoy1975 40 points 1 year ago

    I invented a machine that converts masking tape you can buy at the dollar store into backup tapes. I rewrote Bacula to write the backup AND print pretty flowers on the masking tape. Totally free and open-source. Download it from a rotary phone.

    [–] davidgro 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No answer here, but I just want to point out that according to that graph, you can gain an extremely high skill level in Bacula in a very short time!
    It would seem to be the easiest to learn based on this one cartoon.

    (Related: the phrase "steep learning curve" means the opposite of the way it's usually used)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    But only if you can reverse time for a bit

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If you're going for WORM or similar strategy, and you just want to dump archival backups to tape, you can probably just use dd or even tar (originates frome Tape ARchive), possibly with cron.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    i would just use tar and write a script 1990s style, but encryption support + multi-volume (tapes are LTO-2, so only 200GB uncompressed) won't work with that

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Ah. Yeah. That makes sense. Still probably doable with scripts, depending on the encryption requirements but probably not optimal.

    [–] tym 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Use AMANDA

    https://www.amanda.org/

    [–] banana_head 8 points 1 year ago

    Latest version is on GitHub now: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If that's bacula, what's tar?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    -xfz

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    When I did that, I used veeam to create the VM backup files to disc, then called a script to compress and encrypt the files, then called a second script to copy the encrypted files to tape. It worked really well. I used the free veeam license, so backup to tape wasn't included, but copy to tape was.

    E: FinalBoy1975 seemed to have invented something that could be the solution, but they used masking tape, which I found tears easily. Now, if they'd use scotch tape, we'd be golden hahahaa

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I love Bacula, so hard to setup but once it's going you'll never have to worry again

    [–] SpaceRanger 2 points 1 year ago

    Checkout Proxmox Backup Server paired with Proxmox Backup Client.