On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Networker] expansion plans
>
> At 05:01 PM 10/24/02 +0200, Steve Lee wrote:
> >Hi. I have been using Networker to backup 20 Solaris clients for a few
> >years. We have one library, do a little manual cloning, a very vanilla
> >setup. I have been asked to plan for backing up 3,000 windows clients
> next
> >year. These are desktops and laptops running 98, 2000, XP.
>
> You might want to look into the Open Source solution "Amanda", which was
> written to deal with exactly that kind of problem (backing up the
> desktop
> and laptop computers for all the students at the University of
> Maryland).
>
> It collects all the backups onto a staging drive on the computer that
> owns

Chad,

Amanda would be a great solution.  But doesn't it have the limitation that it
cannot span backups across multiple tapes?

Shelley

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