--On Monday, January 13, 2003 01:56:16 -0500 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT
com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:36:33AM +0530, Nitesh Kumar A. wrote:
>>
>> I am yet to understand the advantages of AMANDA over other backup
>> utilities like ADSM, etc other than AMANDA being a freebie?
>>
>> May I know some of the reasons why AMANDA edges over other traditional
>> Unix backup utilities.
>
> stable
> does what it claims
> source available
> well supported
> good, unique scheduling module
> networked
> scales well from a single system to moderatly large installations
Also that it uses native utilities for the backup images, so you
can do a restore without having to reinstall Amanda first.
Frank
> From your "yet to understand", I assume you have compared amanda to
> other traditional unix backup utilities. May we know some of your
> comparison results? Or the features you find attractive in other
> traditional unix backup utilities?
>
>
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