On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:15 +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:27:12PM +0000, Nils mentioned:
> > I have a fully working/configured bacula. once you get your head around
> > the configs its easy at shooting fish in a barrel.
>> But the fish are tiny fuckers, that after three hours you get bored with,
> so you get your hammer out, and smash the brains out of the big fish
> that's called amanda in one wet smelly movement.
>> john
forget i even said fish...
one of the good things i like about bacula is that you can use
autoloaders and have it spread the job over many tapes.AFAIK amanda
cannot be used over many tapes.
http://www.amanda.org/docs/faq.html#id2549560
so when backing up 600GB to 700GB fileserver it becomes an issuse.
*** unless you split up the files to be backed up to to sizes the tapes
can handle.
nils
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