[plug] Multi-server backup software

[Onno Benschop]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:54, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Andrew Howell wrote:
> 
> >amanda - it's open source
> >
> >http://www.amanda.org/
> >
> >We do exactly this with amanda at several sites and it's great :)
> >  
> >
> Thanks, description says it does exactly what I want.  I was Googling 
> for the better part of half an hour and didn't manage to find that one...
> 
> >Debian packages for it too :)

While I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, and perhaps its because
I'm not as smart as the rest of you, but I spent two days attempting to
make amanda work. The tape testing software ran for 18 hours and it
still gave me a bogus answer.

I'm still searching beyond rsync and tar, with a recursive ftp
thrown-in, because last night the backup decided that after 24Gb it was
full, even though the tape holds 50Gb uncompressed.

So, while a Debian package exists, I felt like yelling at the package
maintainer, but decided that it wasn't worth the stress... If it's that
great, why hasn't anyone made a configuration tool for it - and don't
give me rubbish about "just editing .conf files" either :-(

So, YMMV IMHO.

Reminds me of the abomination called Hylafax... Three weeks later it
finally worked.


Onno Benschop 

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