[plug] Multi-server backup software

[Andrew Howell]

If you want some help with setting up amanda e-mail me off list.

Andrew

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 13:31, Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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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Andrew Howell
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E-mail: andrew at it.net.au
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