A.P. Lawrence

This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open Desktop or Openserver.

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What are some third-party backup/recovery products?

There are a couple of categories here - products which are mostly aimed at one or a small number of Unix machines, and those which are aimed at enterprise-wide, multiplatform backup. The following two lists are NOT meant to be all-inclusive, but merely a sample of some of the better-known products.

• Amanda Backup http://www.amanda.org open source network backup program.
• Bacula http://www.bacula.org, another open source network backup program.
• BackupEDGE (Microlite Corp., 2315 Mill Street, Aliquippa, PA 15001-2228; info@microlite.com; (888) BKP-EDGE or (724) 375-6711; http://www.microlite.com/)
• BRU Tolis Group http://www.tolisgroup.com/)
• Lone-Tar (Lone Star Software Inc., 13987 W. Annapolis Court, Mt. Airy, MD 21771; sales@cactus.com; (301) 829-1622 or (800) LONE-TAR; http://www.cactus.com/)
• Ctar (Unitrends Software Corp., 1601 Oak Street, Suite 201, Myrtle Beach, SC 29677; sales@unitrends.com; (800) 648-2827 or (803) 626-2878; http://www.unitrends.com/)

These products tend to be fast and robust, generally offer data compression, and tend to be able to handle errors on the backup media. Many also include, or can optionally be purchased with, utilities to create automated emergency recovery diskettes which are much friendlier and easier to use than the ones you can produce with standard SCO utilities.

Now, a few for those with more ambitious backup plans ... this section is under construction and hopefully I'll have some more contact info shortly.

• The Backup Professional (Lone Star Software Inc., 13987 W. Annapolis Court, Mt. Airy, MD 21771; sales@cactus.com; (301) 829-1622 or (800) LONE-TAR; http://www.cactus.com/bp.html)
• ARCserve http://www.cai.com/)
• Legato http://www.legato.com

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