On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Gordon J. Mills III wrote:

> Hello Ronald and Ross. Just a note on other backup solutions...If you do
> decide to to commercial I would recommend you take a look at IBM's Tivoli
> (aka TSM) backup system if you are looking at large libraries and lots of
> data. It is a very impressive system with a completely different stategy
> than other backup solutions I've seen. 

I'm very interested about the startegy.  Would you please spend a couple of
words about it to us?

> That said, Amanda comes the closest so far to bridging the gap (commercial
> or GPL). Amanda is a great backup solution, but if I wanted to go commercial
> I'd definitely look at TSM. We had it at my old job and it was fantastic.

What makes it superior to amanda?

> I
> won't go into a detailed description unless others would like to read it. If
> you want to know more about the comparisons I will answer privately.

I definitely would like to know more.  And I think such a discussion
would be perfectly on-topic on this list.  There's no reason to go
privately because most people on this list are interested (IMHO).

> PS: I am not trying to start a flame war here nor am I an affiliate of IBM.
> Just trying to give some info.....

Hey, that's not fair!

Please avoid statements like "they are superior" without an explanation
_why_ they are superior. instead, please provide us with information
about what is missing to come close to this superior system.