On Sun, 4 May 2003 at 10:51pm, tech mail wrote

> 1 - does amanda handle simultaneous tape backups?

One config can do it via RAIT, but that probably won't help you.  You can 
also run multiple configs to drive multiple tape drives.

> 2 - is there a better backup scheme we can employee?

Only you can answer that, really.

> 3 - what are the performance (compression/time) benchmarks for amanda as
> compared to other backup agents (ie backup-Exec)?

As someone else mentioned, you're bottleneck is almost certainly going to 
be your WAN links.  Amanda uses tar or a vendor-specific dump to actually 
get the bits off the disks, and (on request) uses gzip (--fast or --best, 
configurable) on either the server or client end to do the compression.  
Benchmarking those will give you an idea of speed.  

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University