First off I'd just like to say hello. Been lurking on the list for a couple
of weeks now and have found it to be very informative and professional.
Finally decided my data is worth enough to start actually backing it up
instead of all the various hacks, etc. to copy cfg's, etc. to extra disks,
CD's, etc. Looked at some of the commercial products (we use BRU at work)
and they would do the job, they get a bit pricey by the time you start looking
at multiple machines and clients. Anyway I decided to try out Amanda, since
I'd heard good things about it in the past and I must say its quite a
program, setup was pretty straight forward and had it up and running in no
time on my main machine as well as two other clients, had a couple of minor
permissions problems but they were easy to fix once I figured out what was
needed. Slick stuff, works great and the price is right.
I'm currently using 2.4.2b2 but was interested in CVS and checked out the
'amanda' module but noticed thats 2.5.0. Is that a stable enough version
to use or should one not be using HEAD and specify a tag or check out a
different module, I noticed there was a couple of other modules (amanda-2,
am-core?).
Thanks.
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NT vs UNIX, why UNIX ?: It doesn't matter how big or hot your thing is
at the moment if it doesn't stay up or perform.
Mike Hall,
Unix Admin - Rock Island Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Admin - riverside.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
