On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:32:22PM -0500, Tim Donahue wrote:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 18:36, Joachim Schipper wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:37:42AM -0800, Donald J. Ankney wrote:
> > > I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire
> > > drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows
> > > boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through
> > > tar for remote linux/BSD boxes. I've been using this solution across
> > > several platforms (all servers) for a year now, and it has worked well.
> >
> > Amavisd has a very good algorithm for balancing backups. It is, sadly,
> > otherwise a bit of a pain to get going.
> >
> > That said, it's very solid, and can even print pretty reports.
> >
> > Joachim
> >
>
> Which amavisd are you refering to, do you have a link to the website for us?
> The 2 amavisd's that I could find on google (amavisd and amavisd-new) are
> both email filtering programs and don't have anything to do with backups for
> servers (though amavisd-new does run quite happily on backup MX servers).
As Rogier pointed out, I meant misc/amanda. Oopsie... better shut up
when I've been active for more than, say, 15 hours.
Joachim
