RE: General backup advice help?

2006-10-21 Thread McGraw, Robert P.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:50 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: Re: General backup advice help? On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:50:25PM -0700, Don Murray wrote: Hello

General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Don Murray
Hello list, I've been lurking on the list a few days (not really long enough to be opening my mouth, but here it goes). I am a relatively novice sysadmin looking for a better backup setup than our handcrafted scripts. Amanda looks interesting but I am worried that it will not necessarily

Re: General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:50:25PM -0700, Don Murray wrote: Hello list, I've been lurking on the list a few days (not really long enough to be opening my mouth, but here it goes). I am a relatively novice sysadmin looking for a better backup setup than our handcrafted scripts. Amanda

Re: General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Don Murray
Hi Jon, thanks for the reply! Jon LaBadie wrote: My main concern is that we have to be up round the clock these days as we have people connecting during their work day, 9 hours different from ours. So having major services disrupted in the middle of the night for backups doesn't seem a

Re: General backup advice help?

2006-10-20 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:29:05PM -0700, Don Murray wrote: Hi Jon, thanks for the reply! Jon LaBadie wrote: Up is less a concern to me than connected. Actually for those people the main issue is that some key services (like the email server) are shut down during backups. This is a