From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 10:07:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E68C16A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ohwy.com (ns1.ohwy.com [12.154.210.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D143B43F3F for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rduvall@onlinehighways.net) Message-ID: <003b01c39275$9fe96d50$f901a8c0@ws21> From: "Rick Duvall" To: Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:07:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Amanda or Bacula X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:07:20 -0000 Here is my situation: I have about 200 gigs of data to back up every night on multiple machines on the network. All are either FreeBSD or Linux based. My backup machine is FreeBSD. I have about 30 gigs of dump drive space, and a 20 gig tape drive. I am pretty much convinced that even if I use compression, I will need to span across multiple tapes or get a bigger tape drive. At the very least I may have to get more dump drive and do incremental backups. At any rate, I am having a hard time deciding between Amanda and Bacula. Amanda has been around forever and is known to work, but to the best of my knowledge doesn't span across multiple tapes. Bacula, on the other hand, does span across multiple tapes, but it hasn't been out as long. Is this a choice of personal preference, or does one actually work better than the other in my scenario? Sincerely, Rick Duvall Online Highways System Administrator (541) 997-8401 x 111