Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2020 13:10:14 Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:54:46 -0500 > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > But now we want to terminate th[e law school] contract and > > start handling backups ourselves, within the library's own IT group, > > which will remove both TSM and

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:54:46 -0500 Dave Sherohman wrote: > But now we want to terminate th[e law school] contract and > start handling backups ourselves, within the library's own IT group, > which will remove both TSM and the law school from the picture > entirely. So this is a "green field"

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 September 2020 08:54:46 Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:35:51PM +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote: > > If your law school is using TSM, then the only use for Amanda would > > be to back up the small machines onto the central server, and then > > TSM can migrate (HSM)

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:35:51PM +0100, J Martin Rushton wrote: > If your law school is using TSM, then the only use for Amanda would be to > back up the small machines onto the central server, and then TSM can migrate > (HSM) or backup to tape/slow disk. Guess my overview of the history and

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread J Martin Rushton
On 26/09/2020 12:58, Dave Sherohman wrote: But I don't really know anything about the hardware or configuration that the law school is using, only that their chosen software is Tivoli Storage Manager. TSM (now called Spectrum Protect) is IBM's proprietory storage handling system.

Re: How's amanda feeling these days?

2020-09-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 08:37:52AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I think so. You have a lot more machines to herd than I do, but I don't > think that's an impediment. Agreed. I have absolutely no doubt that amanda can handle extremely large installations, provided that the network can deliver