From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 6:13:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885E937B644 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00674; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:13:18 -0400 (EDT) To: support@tecpro.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Backup Software References: <3936E373.17391.79D2C0@localhost> From: Chris Shenton Date: 02 Jun 2000 09:13:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Charles Peters - Tech Support"'s message of "Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:28:03 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:28:03 -0400, "Charles Peters - Tech Support" said: Charles> I am in the process of selecting a tape backup software Charles> solution, and was wondering what the advantage to BRU Charles> Personal Edition, BRU Commercail Edition, both of which are Charles> avaliable from The FreeBSD Mall, or something like Amanda Charles> Network Disk Archiver, which is avaliable at not cost, in Charles> the ports collection. Charles> I need to be able to back up several different FreeBSD Charles> servers to a DAT drive on one particular server. It is Charles> entirely possible that I may be required to back up Novell Charles> Netware volumes or NT Server Volumes. The ability to back Charles> up client workstations (Windows 95/98/2000, Linux Clients, Charles> and FreeBSD Clients) would also be nice. I've been using Amanda at home and a couple other sites quite happily for a few years now. I have a 4xDDS2 (4/8GB) juke which it runs very nicely. It was cheap enough for home or a small ISP; you might want something more capacious and therefore expensive (DLT, AIT). I've been backing up FreeBSD-2, -3, and -4 boxes, SunOS, and Solaris boxes; Amanda should work fine on any UNIX. Check www.Amanda.org for caveats on backup of NT: I think it cannot do "active" files such as the registry, but I don't do enough NT to really know. No idea on Netware, RTFM. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message