On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Hugh Fox wrote:
> Has anyone here had a look at AMANDA as a tape backup solution?
>
> more info from http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda/
>
> There are rpms available on rpmfind.net.
>
> It looks like a good solution, but I wanted to ask here first if it has been
> used.
I've used it in the past, and I know of at least one e-smith site which is
using it.
It's good software, but it's advantages over flexbackup, taper, etc really
only come into play when you have multiple partitions which span more disk
than will fit on tape (or a network of machines, and you are using the
client/server system that amanda provides). With multiple partitions,
Amanda can intermix full dumps and differential dumps from different
partitions, and vary the mix from day to day, so that all partitions have
a full backup once every n days. The down sides are that you need to
restore from up to n tapes after data loss, and you also need to divide
the data over multiple partitions. Since most of the data stored on a busy
e-smith system is within /home/e-smith, even standard partitioning schemes
with separate /usr and /var don't help. And any partitioning scheme which
splits /home/e-smith will be wasteful of space.
And this is all before we start discussing an appropriate user interface
for defining partitions, if we don't stay with the current default scheme.
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