Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

[Martin Hepworth]

Well I use amanda. It's DB doesn't need an external one like bacula so
restores can be less troublesome. BUT it can't span tapes if a backup is
larger than a tape........

It can use a virtual tape setup so it you have a nice big disk(array) you
can backup to that.

I'd say try amanda, if things aren't working out try bacula - it's nice to
hav a choice...

--
Martin

On 12/29/05, Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:
>
> I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a
> number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to
> one another using Samba.
>
> What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just
> want to make backups on disk but later using an external tape drive.
>
> Some swear by Amanda, others insist Bacula works best with Samba, just
> curious is all.
>
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> Kiffin Gish
> Gouda, The Netherlands
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