Hi Greg,
> I actually went and briefly looked at the Amanda website a couple of months
> ago.
> It sounded as if it was targeting a collection of Linux servers being backed
> up to a single tape drive.
>
> I'm just backing up one server to local large disk drive. (This is just what
> the sample script does as well. :) )
>
> Does using Amanda in this type of an environment simplify life, or make it
> worse.
>
> In particular, I want to come up with a end-user friendly restore mechanism.
>
> My plan is to keep the last 30 days of backups online and I would like to
> give end-users the ability to restore their own files. Hopefully via a
> http interface.
>
> I'm not sure if that is feasible yet or not, but that is my goal.
Well, in few words, it does. More precisely:
-- While has been developed for a networking enviroment, should do the
trick locally too.
-- Amanda can take "degraded backup" to an holding disk if you have
no tape drive available (your case probably).
-- Has a nice ftp like interactive recover interface.
-- If you want, can plan your backup schedule for you.
It's worth a shot ;)
HTH,
-m
|