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Re: amanda backup
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alex Dubrovsky wrote:
> Any one here uses amanda backup package on a regular bases?
> How stable is it?
it's very reliable, but the limitations are:
a. staging disk must be available for understandable reasons
b. creates staging files before sending to the tape, and you bump into
the 2 gig maximum file size way too often, or maybe they solved this on
other partition types (Reiser?)
c. fast saves - slow restores. the db of files is not left of the disk
behind, instead you figure out which partition your file was on, and
query the DB on which volume it was last backed up as level 0, 1 and
on. not a major problem since if the system is built right, you'll never
have to restore :-)
> I'm looking for recomendations on hardware configuration for a backup server
> , whcih will backup around 40 workstations and 2 servers on daily bases.
I sorta thought it was public intereset up to this point :-)
for the above setups Amanda seems like a great system unless you need
also a GUI drone to do restores, and there it's a bit lacking (it's a
modular commandline unix tool...)
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