Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:57:17 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Amanda [was: Arkeia Server under FreeBSD] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002101350160.74719-100000@boris.netgate.net> In-Reply-To: <200002102134.QAA34999@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
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There have been several remote-backup businesses but they were probably doomed before broadband. Haven't kept track of them over the last year, but neither have I heard much marketing noise, which could be a sign. Netscape's Atrieva, which became driveway.com, has moved away from backup and toward "sharing". Dave On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > Well that's fair. If there's one thing amanda is not, it's turnkey. > It does take time to install and get going. But I have to say it's > saved me huge amounts of time over the last 2 years, compared to the > way I was doing backups before. (Perl scripts, and a lot of time > correcting things when a backup failed.) > > Just thinking out loud, something I've lately been talking about with > a friend is starting a business to offer remote backups. I'm guessing > there might be lots of people who would love to sub-contract that > headache. Encrypt at the client end before sending, so you could feel > safe trusting us with your data. The part that I'm afraid won't work > out is the cost for the bandwidth it would take to pull it off! > > And no, we wouldn't necessarily use amanda for a job like this, though > we wouldn't necessarily not, either. In fact in order to make a go of > it we would probably have to offer enough options to satisfy a variety > of tastes! > > -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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