[Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-06 Thread drmoque
Just as background only: W hen we had a single office, we had 2 Snap servers (identical models). One was the primary and the other a backup. Each user mapped 3 shares from the primary as X, Y and Z drive. We used the Snap EDR software to create a "replicate" and a "backup". The replicate was

Re: [Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-06 Thread Angelo Höngens
drmoque wrote: To clarify, I don't know if I need a mirror or not. It was necessary in our previous strategy in case our primary NAS failed (and of course it did :)). With the Snap Server our backup data was useless because we could not restore it to be usuable on the backup NAS device. Uhm, fi

Re: [Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-04 Thread Angelo Höngens
drmoque wrote: > Hi, > > Our office uses a Snap Server NAS device to host all of our working > files. The clients accessing the NAS are all WIndows Vista OS. > Recently we opened a second office and the backup strategy we had > with the Snap Server software can't be implemented until our two > off

[Amanda-users] Seeking advice: is Amanda the right tool for my situation?

2008-10-04 Thread drmoque
Hi, Our office uses a Snap Server NAS device to host all of our working files. The clients accessing the NAS are all WIndows Vista OS. Recently we opened a second office and the backup strategy we had with the Snap Server software can't be implemented until our two offices can talk to each oth