Has anyone on-list actually used AMANDA to back up Win NT clients over a LAN? Thing is, we currently use Veritas Backup Exec, and it's dead expensive, and not backwards compatible.
It needs to back up _open_ SQL databases, Lotus Notes databases, hidden shares, the lot.
It *appears* that it can backup open files, but I'm not wholly convinced!Anyone with experience? This is mission-critical stuff!
Ricardo
I just use tar over the LAN.
The problem with backing up any sort of 'doze box is that there are so many things that cannot be restored: they have to be re-installed. But for data files tar is fine -- and it's cheap.
On 05-Dec-01 Ricardo Campos wrote:
Has anyone on-list actually used AMANDA to back up Win NT clients over a LAN? Thing is, we currently use Veritas Backup Exec, and it's dead expensive, and not backwards compatible.
It needs to back up _open_ SQL databases, Lotus Notes databases, hidden shares, the lot.
It *appears* that it can backup open files, but I'm not wholly convinced!Anyone with experience? This is mission-critical stuff!
Ricardo
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I would recommend Arkeia, but if you've got an autoloader tape drive you could find yourself forking out a lot of money for a license. However, if not, they do have a freebie version available that will (I think) backup at least a couple of Windoze boxes to a Linux server with tape drive.
Regards,
Martyn
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