On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:59:45AM +0000, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> b) Have no intention of using it myself for my home computer, but wonder
> if its a variable option in a university department (~100 staff).
> 

Well Amanda has several disadvantages:

- poor support for non Unix-like Operating systems
- Cannot backup filesystems/directories larger then tape drive.
- no builtin support for database backup

Please check if those disadvantages are a problem for you.
If they are not, go ahead and use Amanda. 

I have been running it for seven years (for several small companies)
and never had a failure and i know for sure i can do disaster
recovery with just a pile of tapes.

Before buying a commercial backup software, try a disaster
recovery from just a pile of tapes.

  Ciao
     Dietmar

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