On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:34:41AM -0600, Doran Barton wrote: > Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:03 -0600, Daniel wrote: > >> I would prefer to do this on a Linux box (preferably Fedora), > >> I would need to have a tutorial that will work -- I have had problems > >> installing both the previously mentioned solutions with available > >> tutorials -- and I have until November 7th to come up with a viable > >> solution. What suggestions do you have? Your help is appreciated.
> > Now... about the backup software. Amanda is... weird. It's not like any > commercial backup software I've ever seen. It does the job but it doesn't > have a lot of the features you may have come to expect if you've been using > backup suites like Veritas. Amanda seems to have been designed to be a set of > utilities for using 'tar' as your backup mechanism. Bacula, on the other > hand, was designed from the ground up to provide the types of functions that > traditional enterprise backup solutions provide. > > Our client that uses bacula was using NetVault for Linux for a while and > bacula ROCKS, big time, compared to NetVault. One reason I went with Amanda over Bacula is precisely because it uses tar or dump (your choice). I can get to a file in a backup using a live CD with tar and DD on it if I need to. We don't need no stinking proprietary backup formats. Another reason is that Amanda takes care of scheduling, which is fine by me. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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