“The message on the display tells me that one of the
departmental web servers crashed and would not reboot, apparently a
hard disk failure. I swear, get out of the house and get into the
car for a 25-minute ride to the office. By the time I get there, a
failed hard drive is replaced, and everything is ready for data
restore. It takes me a while to find the needed set of tapes, and
finally, I am feeding tape by tape into the drive and bringing the
web server back to life. While I am doing it, I realize how much
the site has grown in only half a year. And, at the same time,
I feel me hands freeze up because I realize that my trusted tar
command has a 100 character limit on the directory path it can
traverse, and I am doomed!“
“Alexandria is a powerful, sophisticated, yet flexible and easy
to use (once you learn it), automated backup program. Its power and
flexibility rivals, and often exceeds, most of the high-end backup
solutions available on the market today. It is really a pleasure to
see such a tool available for the Linux OS. It looks like the
designers of Alexandria put a lot of thought into the design of the
program, and even more effort to implement those ideas into the
code. As a result, Alexandria has a single code base for all of the
platforms, which makes it easy to maintain, troubleshoot and port.
It offers a wealth of features and options, such as multiple media
formats, advanced disaster recovery tools, an impressive list of
compatible hardware devices, database backup tools, etc. It has a
nice X Windows GUI for beginners and a command line interface for
those who took the pains of reading the Alexandria Reference Guide
at least two times.”