Compatible Tape Libraries and Backup Software

Question

Hi all,
Having trouble digging up any good info on this. I'm building a Solaris 11.1 filer and would like to attach a tape library to back up the filesystem via NDMP. Libraries I'm considering at the moment:
Quantum i40/i80 (HP LTO-6 drives)
Overland Storage NEO 400S (IBM LTO-6 drives)
Backup software I'm considering:
Symantec Backup Exec (runs on a Windows Server)
Dell/Quest Netvault (runs on just about anything)
Ultimately the question is, will either of these tape libraries work with the Solaris 11.1 NDMP implementation and either of the two backup solutions above? Thanks in advance.
-Anh

Answer 1

I just use a script of my own and just call it using cron.  All though I don't hold enough data to warrant incremental backups.  Here it is.
gary@reddwarf ~ $ cat /usr/local/bin/backup
#!/bin/bash
#backup script for $1
rm $2/backup*.txt
FN="$2/backup-`date +%d-%m-%y`.txt"
STIME=`date +%s`
export FN STIME
echo Setting backup options > $FN
#mt -f /dev/st0 compression 1
mt -f /dev/st0 drvbuffer 1
mt -f /dev/st0 stoptions buffer-writes
echo - >> $FN
echo Starting backup of $1 on `date` >> $FN
echo - >> $FN
tar cvpPWf /dev/st0 $1 -X $1/exclude >> $FN ## -X does not work on this version of tar
#tar cvpPWf /dev/st0 $1 >> $FN
ETIME=`date +%s`
export ETIME
BTIME=`expr $ETIME / 60 - $STIME / 60`
export BTIME
echo Backup of $1 complete and verified in $BTIME minuites>> $FN
#mt -f /dev/st0 offline
There are some incremental backup scripts floating round the fourms.
There are plenty other examples in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56646
You should be able to coble something together from these.  You will have a much finer control writing a little script