I believe I looked at Amanda- it appeared to be robust and capable, but I
needed a way to automate the backup of the Windoze PCs from the Linux box.
I.e., if I try to coordinate 14 Windozers to drop data into a central
location, it would never work right - I'd have to "baby-sit" every backup.
The little app I wrote mounts each windoze volume in a list and grabs &
compresses whatever directories/files are in the list. All the backup apps I
looked at had no way of mounting windoze drives over a network and logging
completion status.
Tape drives themselves are almost all screwy and fickle. Units from
Iomega, Conner, Colorado and HP have all ended up being far more trouble than
they were worth - stupid errors, or problems with software interaction. An
Exabyte SCSI tape drive is the only one that worked reliably. Unfortunately,
the cost of an adequate newer Exabyte drive, controller, and tape set is
pretty steep.
Thanks,
Jeff Mings
Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jeff Mings wrote:
>
> > Short summary:
> > Although there are RAID controllers that make hot-swapping SCSI drives
> > seem simple, I was wondering if anyone has found a safe way to hot-swap
> > single IDE drives without setting up any kind of RAID array.
> >
>
> Sounds like you're pretty happy with your backup solution, I was wondering
> if you had checked into amanda, it is a great backup solution.
>
> Was your issue with tape drives about the actual hardware and stability of
> tapes or getting the data to the drive? Just curious...amanda does a great
> job there as it can handle the tape drive screwing up in the middle of a
> backup run, it dumps everything to disk and makes it easy to flush it out
> to tape at a later time...
>
> Bill Carlson
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