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Can anybody recommend a free/commercial backup tool meeting the
following requirements:

1. Networked

2. Not NFS-based.

3. (If rsh/rlogin/rhosts/tcp wrappers -based) Should work in an
environment without root rlogin/rsh facilities. As a non root user,
rsh/rlogin is guaranteed not to prompt for password.

4. Scenario-based. Must be customizeable enough to allow to
include/exclude various parts of the filesystem, based on scenario

5. Cron-friendly, so that it'd allow unattended backups.

The reasons are that the backup tool we used for a long time stopped
working in RedHat 4.1/kernel 2.0.30. It was NFS based; primitively
speaking:

	'find ... > lst; tar -T lst ...'

... with all machines NFS-mounted to the backup server.Now tar just
dies with return code 2 in the middle of this list (always at the very
same file). Even hard-mounted NFS doesn't help.

-- 
-Alexander

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Alexander L. Belikoff			belikoff@bfr.co.il
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
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