Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Hi all,

Have two SCO 5.0.5 systems and one Slackware(joy?) system.

I've been asked to backup all three systems onto a newly acquired AIT Tape drive that we've installed on one of the SCO boxes.

Using the existing cpio backup script on the one SCO works a treat and is really fast (which is a good thing), but I'd like some suggestions regarding what I should be directing my attention to in order to backup all three servers onto this one tape.

nb - All three servers have their own DAT tape drives, the SCO boxes currently use cpio and the Slackware(*shudder*) uses tar for their respective backup processes.

Am looking at the possible use of rsync (from www.rsync.org), where I've recently used in a Irix to Irix transfer (not to tape) of webdata with success. I'm open to any suggestions.

Any help greatly appreciated, got seven days before I go on holidays and I'd like to get it done before then.

amanda sounds like it will do what you need. Take a gander at amanda.

Thanks auswipe,

Looking into the use of it now.

Very much appreciated for the responce.