Re: Iinformation about NETBACKUP of VERITAS

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:51:50 -0500

Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:
> Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> writes:
>> How's that working out for you? I've always wanted to set that up, but
>> have always had obstructive policies, and/or not enough time, keeping
>> me from doing so.
>>
>
> Amanda is working fine here (have been using it for a number of
> years). It's a bit of a PITA to set it up, restore is not too easy, but
> overall, we have good experience with it. Support large number of tape
> drives and tapes, and is strictly CLI and ASCII config files.
>

Forgot to add: amanda still doesn't support multiple tape volumes, but it's
apparently being worked on. However, this is not a problem for us. We are a
rather small site, no enterprise -- our backup is about 200GB to 4
different (DLT) tape drives.

Dragan 

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