[Suns-at-Home] Backup

[R. Lonstein]

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:45:21PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
	[snip]
> And in any case, before settling on any backup program, I'd strongly
> recommend looking into how well it actually works.  Elizabeth Zwicky
> did a torture-test suite for backup programs; I'm not sure whether it's
> still available, though if anyone wants I can probably chase down a
> copy.
	[snip]

The torture test is at:
	http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html
Really a great read, particularly the conclusion. It would be
interesting to see how things have changed and to include more of the
commerical products.

As long as we're discussing backups check out
	http://www.backupcentral.com/
which is by Curtis Preston who authored a book on B&R.

- Ross