[geeks] amanda

[Joshua Fielden]

Rob quoth, on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 09:34:14AM -0500:
> From: Rob <rstaab at panix.com>
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Cc: geeks at mrbill.net, <rescue at mrbill.net>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] amanda
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 09:34:14 -0500 (EST)
> 
> Difficult if not impossible. Amanda should still be considered in the
> Alpha stages and has whole hordes of problems doing real life backups.
> These problems are not limited to:
> 

When I worked for GeoCities, we used it on ~3.5TB of data, worked like a champ, used an autoloader, etc. Of course, we DID have Dr Zajac working for us, and that may have helped. ;)

The tunnel and tape span issues are valid, you should stage data in digestable chunks back to the mothership...
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