Extended SCSI support provides network device backups
Master backups can be restarted
Creates crash recovery diskettes
Cons:
Backup format is proprietary
No support for standard software compression (gzip), only internal software and hardware compression
Curses: Microlite provides old-school backup.
System Requirements
CPU
386 MHz or better
2.x kernel
Backup Drive
SCSI or IDE tape drive
Supported Platforms
AIX
Hewlett-Packard
Linux
SCO Unix
Solaris
UnixWare
Backups are a pain. They’re one of those odious and time-consuming necessities of responsibly managing a computer system. If you do not do backups with some regularity, there will be nothing but old data around when a drive goes bad, and then you’ll be screwed.
That’s where BackupEDGE from Microlite Corp. comes into the picture. Microlite’s serious, long-term experience on Unix platforms is obvious from the start; the “programs” that report on a backup’s overall success or failure are shell scripts, making it easy to integrate custom reporting…
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