On Friday 25 September 2020 09:19:58 Dave Sherohman wrote: > Howdy, all! > > We've recently had some problems at work with our backup provider, so > my boss has come to me and requested a recommendation for bringing > backups in-house. I've previously adminned a small amanda > installation back in 2000-2006 and I quite liked the system and how it > works, so that was my first thought. > > I've done some general web searches and it looks like the situation > today isn't as good as it was a decade and a half ago - not a lot of > active development, limited support for Windows clients, etc. But, on > the other hand, amanda was already a very mature system back then, so > I don't know that a lot of ongoing development would still be needed. > > So let's see what the current users have to say. Is a new amanda > installation still a sane choice in 2020? > > My use case is that I'll be backing up somewhere in the neighborhood > of 75ish servers, a mix of physical and (mostly) virtual machines, and > a mix of mostly Linux with some Windows and one or two FreeBSD. Total > disk usage is currently in the 35-40 TB range, growing by maybe 1-2 TB > per year. Aside from my own positive experiences with amanda, both I > and my boss (and most of my coworkers) are very pro-open-source. > > If amanda isn't a reasonable choice for that scenario, what would be a > better option? > > And what kind of hardware specs should I be looking at? Is tape still > king, or is everyone backing up to hard drives now?
I've been useing hard drives with amanda for over a decade now, I'd estimate they are 100x more dependable than tape, as I've had zero hd failures, and dozens of tape failures and tape drives that absolutely had to spend the holidays in Oklahoma City being rebuilt. And some of the HD's had nearly 100k spinning hours on them when they got too small. Currently doing 5 machines nightly, with about 58 days for vtapes recycle. Whats not to like? Amanda has Just Worked here since the later 90's. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
