Am 25.09.20 um 15:19 schrieb Dave Sherohman: > If amanda isn't a reasonable choice for that scenario, what would be a > better option?
This thread contains numerous valuable and positive replies already, I am a bit late and decide to reply to the original posting as well. It's correct and sad that the development of the open source amanda project is de facto dead for years now. I would love to see movement and development here. Aside from that the available software is quite stable and useful nonetheless. I run >10 separate amanda-installations at various customers for years and I am still convinced that it is a solid and reliable backup solution for environments with linux servers. Ad windows backups: don't expect too much dumping CIFS-shares via smbclient works OK for me. edge cases: maybe Don't expect specific plugins like MS-SQL, Exchange, etc in the community edition of amanda. And I don't know about the quality of the commercial stuff from Zmanda/Betsol. hardware: you received some valid pointers already. In general amanda is rather "compatible": if your linux distribution is able to use some hardware, it's very likely that amanda is capable as well. It all comes down to finding your bottleneck: is the overall system capable to move all the data (to be dumped to fulfill your dump schedule) within your backup window? Holding disk(s) help to parallelize things and decouple the transfers via network from the actual writing to the tapes or vtapes. tldr: amanda is a powerful tool. Simple and complex at the same time. It should work for you, and the community here will be helpful in getting that solved ;-) feedback welcome :-)
