I invented a machine that converts masking tape you can buy at the dollar store into backup tapes. I rewrote Bacula to write the backup AND print pretty flowers on the masking tape. Totally free and open-source. Download it from a rotary phone.
No answer here, but I just want to point out that according to that graph, you can gain an extremely high skill level in Bacula in a very short time!
It would seem to be the easiest to learn based on this one cartoon.
(Related: the phrase “steep learning curve” means the opposite of the way it’s usually used)
If you’re going for WORM or similar strategy, and you just want to dump archival backups to tape, you can probably just use dd or even tar (originates frome Tape ARchive), possibly with cron.
i would just use tar and write a script 1990s style, but encryption support + multi-volume (tapes are LTO-2, so only 200GB uncompressed) won’t work with that
If that’s bacula, what’s tar?
