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Re: New to Amanda- discouraged by some absurd limitations..
2004-05-02 13:34:39
Use FILE-DRIVER and wait until you have enough files to fill up the
CD-R. Or use CD-RW as your "tapes" and keep several that you can rotate
and re-use.
Oh yes, we have designed amanda specifically to satisfy your personal
whims, pretty please don't reject it, it will so much hurt my feelings.
IMHO this was rather rude way to bring up the issue, Why not just look
for some other software if you didn't like it? No one held a gun to
your head and made you use amanda. freshmeat.net lists several other
packages specifically geared to making backups to CD-R as you describe.
amanda is geared to backing up large networks, like Veritas or Legato
without the very expensive licenses. You can get it to work for a
small, single computer, but it was not designed to do that, hence it may
well not be the best tool for that job, nor does it promise to be.
Justin Gombos wrote:
I was looking forward to using Amanda to backup 4-5 machines on my LAN
and one over the Internet, but something seems incredibly stupid about
the way Amanda forces the user to operate. Please tell me I'm wrong;
maybe I'm misunderstanding the documentation. If I want to perform
daily backups to CDRs, and I expect to have around 10 megs of data
change per day, do I really have to waste an entire CDR every day?
--jonathan
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