Hai Jon:

I haven't compared AMANDA with other backup utilities extensively. 

The main reason is - People in our university are using ADSM. I have been
using AMANDA for sometime on my machine. I need to have a nice reason for
my university for switching over to AMANDA. 

Few nice reasons could be it's a freebie, works well on heterogeneous
systems, open source, etc. 

But I am also looking for advantages of Amanda over ADSM, which is a
licensed one. Some reasons technically.. . about why we should prefer
Amanda over ADSM or in fact any other utility. There are also other
freebies like Amanda too. 


Regards,
Nitesh



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


>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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