Re: Is amanda suitable for a single server backup?

2001-06-09 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hello Howard, There are two solutions that I have used in this situation: 1) If you can handle a few minutes of down time, like on a home PC or personal workstation, you could use ghosting to a removable disk drive. This is probably OK for a home PC or another situation where you can handle

Is amanda suitable for a single server backup?

2001-06-08 Thread Howard Zhou
If I have a single server to backup with 4Gb of data backed up to a 40-80Gb tape without a tape changer, would amanda do the job? To my understanding, amanda does append to a tape. Without appending, you have to put in a new tape everyday for a small amount of incremental backup data on 40-80Gb