Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:34:10 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Amanda [was: Arkeia Server under FreeBSD] Message-ID: <200002102134.QAA34999@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from spork <spork@super-g.com> of "Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:05:38 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.00.10002101600020.1922-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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>> Just out of curiosity, what don't you like about amanda? > >Too much work :) I'll admit it... I have too many other things to deal >with, and getting it going with ssh, etc. etc. etc. I can see this growing >into a large project that would suck time from other large projects. > >I just want something nice and simple and safe that's turnkey. I don't >mind putting time into figuring out the "backup strategy", but I don't >want to have much work on the initial install. 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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