Tape backup program for Debian?

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:53:48PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> 
> I have a Compaq Proliant ML350 D02/F02 server with a Compaq Smart
> Array 431 Controller set as RAID 5 with three 18 Gig drives (35 Gig
> total)  and a 12/24G Compaq DAT tape drive.
> The machine will be used as the office intranet web server.
> 
> I just installed the Sarge stable distribution of Debian on it and am
> looking for recommendations for a tape backup package/method.   I am
> familiar with cron and tar, but am wondering if there is something
> easier/better.   The goal would be to perform a full backup, then
> incrementals.

  http://www.amanda.org/

Debian packages are amanda-client and amanda-server.

-David