“Everybody needs to do backups. Nearly everyone who has ever
worked with or owned a computer has heard the refrain, “Make sure
you do a backup.” So, why is it so hard to get people to do regular
backups? Could the backup experience be all that painful? Take
heart, gentle reader, because it doesn’t have to be.”
“In the world of Linux backup software, BRU is legendary and
seems to have been around forever. BRU’s only flaw, it seemed, had
been its lack of large enterprise, network-based backup and
recovery technology. BRU-Pro changes all of that. It’s designed to
backup and restore almost anything, from single-server
architectures to multiple clients running a variety of operating
systems, including Linux, AIX, UnixWare, HP-UX, Solaris, and
others. Check the BRU Web site for details.”
“Note that all this power does mean some changes for those who
are used to the old BRU software. Whereas BRU could back up to
pretty much any device you could write to, BRU-Pro is designed to
write to SCSI tape drives only. This “only,” however, does include
a variety of devices, such as automated tape libraries with robotic
arms and bar code readers.”