On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jeff Mings wrote:
> 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.
amanda can make use of smdmount to backup WIN machines, I know plenty of
people are using it that way. Not good for getting the OS (files open when
Doze is up), but as good as it gets for the price...:)
> 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.
Tape drives are one place where I would spend the money if backups are
worth anything at all. All I can say is DLT...
Bill Carlson
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