On 7/20/2009 9:32 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> I found this today:
>
> http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/34020-Open-source-backup-tools-Amanda-BackupPC-and-Bacula-compared
>
> However, very little comparison is done.
>
> The Bacula information is based upon writings by Eric Burgener, but I
> can find no material referencing his work.
>
> Offhand, the article mentions two solutions in passing and dismisses
> them.  Then it glows on about Amanada.  :)
>
> At first, I thought the article was outdated, but I could find no
> evidence that it was a republished work.
>
>    
The article cites someone choosing Amanda over Bacula in 2005, because 
of product maturity.  I looked at Amanda back around then, and gave it 
up for useless since it was completely incapable of such basic 
functionality as spanning a job across multiple tapes, or writing more 
than one job to a single tape.  That's a mature product?


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