At Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:19:58 -0500 Dave Sherohman <[email protected]> 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. Yes, it is quite mature. > > So let's see what the current users have to say. Is a new amanda > installation still a sane choice in 2020? Yes, at least for a Linux network. I have very minimual experience with MS-Windows. The only MS-Windows system I have experience with is a VM on a Linux machine using LVM, so I just create a LVM snapshop and then do a raw "disk" backup, but only even few months -- the MS-Windows system is only used twice a year to interface with an HVAC system. > > 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? > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
