I have been noticing various comments on backups and it is clear that
it varies a lot depending on circumstances. I am probably going to
have to purchase new hardware -- either a tape or perhaps NAS --
whatever makes the most sense.
I was using Amanda with a tape drive running on an old Linux machine
with a tape drive. A little slow blinking red light came on, on our
Exabyte Eliant 820 tape drive seems to be no longer functioning after
only five or six years. (Completely off topic, we took it out of the
machine and ran it with the cover off to see the mechanism snapping
while trying to do something - so if you know how to fix it let me
know.)
Amanda has some positive and negative aspects. It is shareware, it can
back up windows and unix as well. It was great at keeping track of
tapes - though I suppose what makes sense now is to use tapes or DVD
for off site storage and just back up to disk. On the down side with
Amanda, at least in the OSX world, you wind up having to use an
alternate tar program, and it is not an out of the box easy to manage
solution. I had to compile it; no packages available - no gui
available.
I will need to back up my Xserver, a windows server, and a linux
server for a while as well as at least some files from some client
machines on the windows network.
I suppose my ideal would be something that could be installed with a
package. Could back up disks from unix (any linux, bsd, solaris,etc),
osx (which is also unix but HFS is unique), and windows (ntfs and
fat32) systems plus back up selected files as well.
The ideal interface is web based since that can be run and checked
from anywhere.
--
Josh Kuperman
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