>>>>> "dw" == Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Or another package for a network is 'Amanda' which I find has some
>> really nice features Bru is missing such a plotting and network
>> backups. It also does incrementals along with full backups that can
>> be scheduled and much more.
dw> The network version of BRU does network bacukps :) The 'single-user'
dw> version that comes with RH 5.0 doesn't.
dw> Did you set up amanda using an RPM? When I installed it (a long time ago)
dw> it was really difficult to get going, and would have only been worth the
dw> time investment for more than just a few hosts..
No, I installed from source although there was a rpm floating
around. I have five machines here that I do scheduled backups
on and can get a nice plot using amplot that shows transfer rates
time, and what happened on that backup of the the different machines.
Amanda does parallel transfers of all the machines in a streaming
mode to the tape drive, therefore is fairly fast, dependent of course
on your tape drive.
This package is not meant for the single user, just a little too much
for that.
I choose Amanda over BRU since it is free, and BRU's network package
is about $300 last time I looked and I guess I am just too cheap to
pay that much for a network backup system since Amanda works just fine
for me.
IMHO Amanda will do everything that BRU will do and more, except for
the nice error checking that BRU has.
Amanda will use any of these to backup - Dump, Tar, Cpio, I use dump
and amrestore and have never had a moments problem with it once it was
setup. You have to label your tapes using amlabel and then rotate thru
them, it can also be setup to use tape changers although I have not
used that for a long time now. I had a couple of Exabyte changers, but
found I had too many problems with the hardware failing so am now
using just a single HP dat drive.
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