I don't think Amanda is going to work for my environment...

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello all. I have been running Amanda now for about a month and a half now and I don't think this is going to work well for me in my environment. Here are some problems that I have: 1. Does not handle NT Servers well with smbclient. The biggest problem I have is the limited ability to exclude

Re: I don't think Amanda is going to work for my environment...

2004-03-18 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 at 12:58pm, Michael Kahle wrote If I am understanding this correctly, Amanda has no way to incrementally backup a disk that also uses a exclude list to prevent it from backing up certain files. This seams to me to be an important feature included in a backup package.

Re: I don't think Amanda is going to work for my environment...

2004-03-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! 1. Does not handle NT Servers well with smbclient. The biggest problem I have is the limited ability to exclude files from the backups. I have a server, ntFileServer, that is running Windows NT Server. There are a ton of files on the server that are of type mp3, mpeg, avi, etc that

Re: I don't think Amanda is going to work for my environment...

2004-03-18 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 14:31, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It is true that it takes some wedging to make amanda work in a 'doze heavy environment -- that's simply not what it was designed for. As for advice on commercial solutions, this isn't exactly the best place to ask. ;) If you're not on