On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, John P. Looney wrote:
> I played with Bacula for an Afternoon, and went back to Amanda.
> It's almost really good. But it seems to be a tool that was written
> with a config-generator in mind. You'll go crazy trying to make up
> the configs yourself though. I was trying to set it up to look
> after ten clients. After spending three hours trying to make sure
> all config files were in sync, I gave up & went back to Amanda.
Still, competition for Amanda is good.
> Amanda is not good, but it's simple. And that's a lot more
> important to a busy sysadmin than good.
What's bad about Amanda? (i can think of a few things, but overall
amanda is pretty good).
> john
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