How shall I do backups?

[ciphergoth]

OK, I've used DAR long enough to know that it's fundamentally broken. I just gave up on it at the point where I'd written CD 1 of a two CD archive, and said "please test the integrity of this slice of the archive". It responded "last slice is not present, please provide before integrity can be tested".

So I'm not using that any more.

What the hell can I use that does proper multi-archive backups for CDs?

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking myself about what a replacement should look like...

[skx.livejournal.com]

 If you do have some idea's it'd be good to share.

 I've been thinking about decent backup software for the past few days - partly inspired by your difficulty in finding something, and partly as a result of not finding a good network backup tool.

 Currently I'm using a tape drive and rsync. IT doesn't scale well and gets intricate when you've got N hosts - contention is a real problem. I don't believe I could restore any single file easily; the tape drive is in use pretty much 100% of the day :(

 OK half the problem is host N copies to drive; then N+1; then we wait for tape change. I guess I should be getting all the hosts to copy to "server" then dump that to the drive - problem is $server doesn't have the diskspace for the complete contents of a tape :(