[SunRescue] Veritas backup for *nix

[Bran Tregare]

Where can one find AMANDA?

At 09:23 PM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> >
> >   Licenses are a pain in the ass...I run AMANDA.  Initial setup is a
> > pain, but once it's running, it kicks ass.  I'm backing up 33
> > filesystems on 12 machines in three states using AMANDA.  It's cool!
>
>Amanda is great for what it does.  The problem is that, as of a couple
>of years ago, it couldn't handle tape robot control and could only deal
>with single-tape drives.  This is fine for a smaller network, but
>becomes less useful on a huge network unless you really want to change
>tapes manually every day.  Perhaps things have changed since then...at
>the time, tape robot control was on the "to do" list for the Amanda
>developers.
>
>The nice things about Amanda (aside from the fact that it's free with
>source) include standard tape formats, fairly simple configuration, and
>good cataloging and email reports.
>
>At home, I personally just use dump (ufsdump, actually), which works
>fine.
>
>- Scott
>
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