On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:42:49PM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me if they use amanda and are a large commercial company > > (> 250 employees), a hospital or a university and if so how much it's > > used (whole institution, small department, single server etc). How many
[[ snip ]] > However, as I said, I am not in the computer support group and have no > control over how backups are performed. ... > > I might look at amanda for my home machine, although I'm tempted to > leave well along with my odd unix scripts run from cron. I've never had > a major catastropy (disk failure, # rm -rf / or similar) but whenever I Leaving the current system intact, you could still investigate amanda at home. There is nothing that says you have to install a cron entry to do regular backups. You can install the system and check its functioning by simply doing "amdump <config>". This is the way, four or five years ago, I explored amanda before recommending it to a client who wanted to get rid of Veritas. When the client said "freeware? maybe, we'll see", I surreptitiously installed amanda using a different, smaller tape drive than was in use for Veritas. A month later they had a recovery need that the Veritas support person was having trouble with. After a bit I recovered the files to an empty directory tree and reported I had them; they could copy them over if they wanted. An hour later they did. Veritas was gone at the end of the support contract. For archiving I have a separate config that I still run manually when the muse stikes, a major change is planned, etc. Particularly when using tar for backup, it need not affect other backup schemes. (dump may affect /etc/dumpdates for other schemes) jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)