[afnog] Good backup software

[Alan Barrett]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> I used [amanda] for years. I loved it, but it doesn't scale. It does
> work. You know when its done scaling when it stops working.

The biggest problem I have with amanda is that it doesn't split dumps
across tape boundaries.  So you can never have a disk partition (or
directory tree or whatever) whose backup data is larger than the tape,
and if you have 3 backups that each use 60% of the tape size, then you
need 3 tapes, not 2 tapes.  If your "tape" is really a huge RAID array,
then you don't care about this.

For new installations, I recommend bacula, or perhaps one of the
rsync-based schemes.

--apb (Alan Barrett)