Hai Jon: I haven't compared AMANDA with other backup utilities extensively.
The main reason is - People in our university are using ADSM. I have been using AMANDA for sometime on my machine. I need to have a nice reason for my university for switching over to AMANDA. Few nice reasons could be it's a freebie, works well on heterogeneous systems, open source, etc. But I am also looking for advantages of Amanda over ADSM, which is a licensed one. Some reasons technically.. . about why we should prefer Amanda over ADSM or in fact any other utility. There are also other freebies like Amanda too. Regards, Nitesh On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: > > I am yet to understand the advantages of AMANDA over other backup > utilities like ADSM, etc other than AMANDA being a freebie? > > May I know some of the reasons why AMANDA edges over other traditional > Unix backup utilities. stable does what it claims source available well supported good, unique scheduling module networked scales well from a single system to moderatly large installations >From your "yet to understand", I assume you have compared amanda to other traditional unix backup utilities. May we know some of your comparison results? Or the features you find attractive in other traditional unix backup utilities? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)