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Re: BRU -> Amanda migration
2006-01-30 16:54:31
Salvatore Enrico Indiogine schrieb:
2006/1/30, Dmitri Joukovski <dj AT zmanda DOT com>:
BTW, why do you migrate from BRU in the first place?
1. We have the strange SCSI error: "Medium destination full" I have
a feeling that it is related to the fact that the change from one tape
to the other of the same b/u pool is not really bug free. A reboot is
the only thing that helps. We are using FC4 on a Dell Optiplex G110 +
LSI Logic SCSI card + Quantum tape drive.
2. BRU has a nice GUI, but the restore and verify tabs will lock up
the computer if selected. Only a power cycle is effective. We have
many catalogs and probably the Python code of the GUI sucks up all the
X11 resources. It renders the GUI useless for recovery and
verification and I have to go CLI. Not a problem in itself, but the
CLI tools are not very good. I have to grep the catalog files to
figure out where the file is defined.
3. It seems that the BRU support team is not able to help us with
problems (1) and (2). That sort of negates the rationale for using
closed source.
Welcome aboard, I think this list WILL be able to help you.
Amanda's GUI is guaranteed to be problem-free: No GUI, no GUI-problems.
And I haven't yet heard of ONE case where an AMANDA-client/server had to
be rebooted to resolve an AMANDA-related problem ... correct me, if needed.
Thanks, Dmitri, for the migration-thread, it's time to get
self-confident enough to think AND support migration to Amanda.
Salvatore:
As Joshua already mentioned it is recommended to at first get used to
AMANDA's different way of scheduling backups. IMO this is the main
change-of-concept you have to fully understand when you migrate to
AMANDA. It sounds scary at first, but is very comfortable afterwards (we
know this pattern from other things in life, don't we?).
Regards, Stefan.
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