[Novalug] Amanda users?

[Nicholas Brenckle]

Does the SDLT have a changer? I have used Amanda going on 3+ years now, with
a tape library and changer and I have to say it has performed just fine. The
few problems I had were self inflicted (not watching to see when the drive
needed cleaning, then letting it go MORE months and getting a tape STUCK in
it) or not paying attention to the report that it can't back up server XYZ
and then suddenly needing XYZs files. Oops. As I said, all self inflicted. I
ran it for two years + on a single server with a VXA drive and we manually
rotated the tape each day, but I hate doing that :-)

The ONLY part of amanda I dont like is when doing offsite rotation. There
are some ways around that by using mutlitple  configs and stuff but I found
it easiest just to let amanda do its own thing. If I want offsite rotation
and fancier stuff, I use Arkeia.



On 4/12/07, Ben Creitz <creitz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All, I am working on a backup solution involving multiple hosts (all
> Solaris/SPARC now, will be all Linux/x86 eventually).  Basically I
> have a workstation + SDLT drive that will act as a backup "master",
> and < 20 other hosts from which I will grab various files for backup.
> It looks like a home-grown script would be feasible now, but would
> quickly get out of hand.  So I am considering Amanda.  Just wanted to
> take a quick survey on thoughts from people who use Amanda, or from
> those of you use something similar.  Thanks!
>
> Ben
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