-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/08 19:28, Steve Witt wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > >> Greetings; >> >> It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. >> I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & >> restore (Debian/lenny) > > Do you intend to backup to tape? Unless amanda has improved a lot in the > last few years, I'd recommend bacula. I switched from amanda to bacula > and have been much happier. My complaint with amanda was that it didn't > support our tape library at all (a 22 tape library) and we had to > configure the library so it used a new tape every day. bacula does > support tape libraries well and uses the tapes much more efficiently. It > stores the backed up files in a database and so during a restore will be > able to find the correct tape(s) in a multi-tape backup set to load to > get the files you request. The cool thing about this is that it doesn't > associate a tape with a particular backup job, and so is able to fill up > the tape as backups are done over time. I don't know the status of
So multiple, consecutive days of backups are on one tape? IMNSHO, that's a serious design flaw, because a bad tape would then wipe out many days of backups, like putting many eggs in a fragile basket. > development on amanda any more, but bacula is being actively maintained. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDTlDS9HxQb37XmcRAgFqAJ9W87Js9h3RhsWNnJ+4O7HR5uLE7gCfVwnN m8pyB1JL7kyzL0p/WdvxVGc= =qmui -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]