Re: advantages of amanda over ADSM or other backup utilities?

2003-01-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 13 January 2003 02:36, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: >Hai Jon: > >I haven't compared AMANDA with other backup utilities extensively. > >The main reason is - People in our university are using ADSM. I > have been using AMANDA for sometime on my machine. I need to have > a nice reason for my unive

Re: advantages of amanda over ADSM or other backup utilities?

2003-01-13 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
> >> May I know some of the reasons why AMANDA edges over other traditional > >> Unix backup utilities. > > > > stable > > does what it claims > > source available > > well supported > > good, unique scheduling module > > networked > > scales well from a single system to moderatly large installati

Re: advantages of amanda over ADSM or other backup utilities?

2003-01-12 Thread Nitesh Kumar A.
Hai Jon: I haven't compared AMANDA with other backup utilities extensively. The main reason is - People in our university are using ADSM. I have been using AMANDA for sometime on my machine. I need to have a nice reason for my university for switching over to AMANDA. Few nice reasons could be

Re: advantages of amanda over ADSM or other backup utilities?

2003-01-12 Thread Frank Smith
--On Monday, January 13, 2003 01:56:16 -0500 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: >> >> I am yet to understand the advantages of AMANDA over other backup >> utilities like ADSM, etc other than AMANDA being a freebie? >> >> May

Re: advantages of amanda over ADSM or other backup utilities?

2003-01-12 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote: > > I am yet to understand the advantages of AMANDA over other backup > utilities like ADSM, etc other than AMANDA being a freebie? > > May I know some of the reasons why AMANDA edges over other traditional > Unix backup utilities.