tape backup from remote

[Bob Martin]

I'm guessing that the reason that there are many options is that there 
are many [different] needs.

I didn't mean to disparage amanda. It's solid code, and been around for 
years.

Another option that has gained a lot of momentum and popularity is doing 
away with the tapes all together and just dumping to disk. Not a good 
fit for all, but an excellent fit for many.

Bob

Dan Vande More wrote:
> Some people/networks see no problems with rdump. In most cases, I myself
> would recommend amanda though.
> Amanda has the distinct advantage of being able to spool data to the
> "holding disk" at which point another utility writes this to the tape.
> This eliminates the t(h?)rashing Christoph mentioned.
> This is almost word for word out of the documenation.
> 
> http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
> 
> Amanda can also be configured to compress on the client, and send to the
> server. This is much more efficient than transferring text files, etc.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Dan Vande More
> 
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