[Sussex] Suggestions for backup software

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Karl

On Mon, 8 May 2006 15:26:57 +0100
Karl E. Jørgensen <karl at jorgensen.com> wrote:

> I'm curiuos as to why you think Amanda is heavy duty - I find it
> absolute excellent. Once configured (which has a couple of
> well-documented pitfalls), I have found it to be a case of
> "install-and-forget" - as long as I keep giving it a new
> "tape" (dvd-ram in my case) every night...
> 
> The greatest thing about it is the ability to manage itself -
> basically you say what you want backed up on which machines, how many
> tapes you've got and let it loose...

The reason I didn't look at using Amanda is because I'm looking for a
backup solution for a single machine.  The server in question has a
tape drive in it and a large disk array.  The primary server mirrors
onto the backup server to provide redundancy and the backup
server then runs tape jobs to provide offline backups.  As I understand
it Amanda is geared towards larger scale, network based backups of many
machines, which I don't need.

However if you think that Amanda would suit my needs, I'll give it
another look?  I'm not doubting its quality at all, only that it may be
a sledgehammer to crack a nut!?!

Cheers
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Ronan
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