>we ... wonder whether we can get some help about the backup software.
As one of the Amanda developers, I'm severely biased :-), but if you go
the Amanda route one of the things this mailing list tries very hard to
do is be helpful. There is an amazingly high signal to noise ratio.
I don't know if you've run across it yet, but Amanda was written up in
a book about Unix backups and the chapter is online:
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
That might give you some insight into what life with Amanda is like.
>Is it reasonably straight forward to set up and reliable?
Like a lot of software, setup could always be better. But if you have
trouble, the documentation and this mailing list will almost always get
you the answers.
Once set up, it's very reliable. We've used it for years and currently
back up several hundred GBytes every night. I don't remember the last
time Amanda itself goofed. The hardware, the backup program (e.g.
ufsdump or GNU tar), myself :-), yes. Amanda, no.
>Ursula
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
