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Re: Planning to use Amanda and have a few questions.
2006-04-10 10:44:20
emre AT serverification DOT com wrote:
I just wondered if there are some
other amanda users who backup their MS based servers lik Exchange, SQL
and etc. with amanda?
We are, both Exchange 2003, and SQL Server 2000.
Are there any specific problems
using amanda with Windows Servers? Are they happy with their
performance and the effectiveness of the Amanda software with their
windows servers? Are there any direct built-in software support for
such servers (like SQL)?
There isn't builtin support. What we've done is throw some cheap SATA
disks in RAID-0 into our backup server, share that space via SAMBA to
the Windows servers, and then have them do regular dumps to the SAMBA
share. The AMANDA box then just backs up the databases from the local
disk. This works really well for us.
Simply i would love hear feedbacks
of Amanda users who backup their Windows servers using amanda and guide
me during our decision for our backup plan.
Well, you can't beat the price of Amanda (or the excellent support from
this mailing list, for that matter!), and it does a lot of things with
scheduling that commercial software just can't do, IMO. It's just a
little trickier backing up certain Windows applications, but the
procedure we're using works well for us.
Graeme
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