[ILUG] WAS OT: , now which backup solution

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, John P. Looney wrote:

> I played with Bacula for an Afternoon, and went back to Amanda. 
> It's almost really good. But it seems to be a tool that was written 
> with a config-generator in mind. You'll go crazy trying to make up 
> the configs yourself though. I was trying to set it up to look 
> after ten clients. After spending three hours trying to make sure 
> all config files were in sync, I gave up & went back to Amanda.

Still, competition for Amanda is good.

> Amanda is not good, but it's simple. And that's a lot more 
> important to a busy sysadmin than good.

What's bad about Amanda? (i can think of a few things, but overall 
amanda is pretty good).

> john

regards,
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