-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:22:23 EDT Benjamin Scott said: > I considered Amanda. Amanda really isn't appropriate, for, as I >understand it, Amanda has to write the backup set to disk before writing it >to tape. It doesn't *have* to, it just makes thing faster for over-the-net backups of remote machines. >We have a single system with lots of disk we want to backup to >tape. Amanda can be used to back up it's local disk, in which case you probably wouldn't need to use the holding-disk, since the data is close enough to the drive to keep it streaming. However, this doesn't mean that amanda is necessarilly the right tool for you. > Doubling the storage just to run Amanda is not acceptable. I guess it comes down to what's cheaper, a commercial backup package that may or may not work, or a 200GB IDE drive and amanda :) > Can anyone make a recommendation? Commercial software will be considered. Legato is good, but expensive and slow. Veritas has something as well. Don't know whether they have Linux based servers yet, but they both have Linux clients AFAIK. HTH. - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8wEzcuweSOVPxKO4RAlTVAKCfG68N5Upfoptt20ll/SCYS0XTrQCfYThy sifD5coBzqzqeYNKbk/K3t4= =R/ph -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
