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Amanda 2.5 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-ways-to-stash-your-goods dept.

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that a new release of the popular open source backup tool Amanda is now available fixing many of the limitations of previous versions. From the release: "Overall the focus of the release is on security of the backup process & backed up data, scalability of the backup process and ease of installation & configuration of Amanda."

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  1. What a co-incidence! by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Funny

    In high school, Amanda was always my backup too!

    Ahh, fun times.

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  2. BackupPC is also good by HappyCamp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing against Amanda, but I switched from using Amanda to going to BackupPC. http://backuppc.sf.net/

    What I really like about BackupPC is the Disk based backup focus of it. It does NOT support tape drives. But for doing backups to hard drives it is great. And with the way it will only keep one copy of a file, no matter how many systems it is on really helps to minimize disk space usage. Example: You have /bin/ls on five of your linux boxes that all run the same distribution. It will only store one copy of /bin/ls on the backup server and use hardlinks to keep track of all the other copies. Plus it compresses the files.

    Great stuff!

  3. Re:thanks amanda by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny
    i've been using amanda at work for the past year now and it's been wonderful.
    Sure it seems wonderful now, but work relationships can cause a lot of trouble. I mean, sooner or later she's going to realize you're just using her and then what?
  4. I Tried It Once... by Illbay · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...but had a tough time with the (at least at that time) limited hardware support. While I'm sure they've probably worked that out (at least to a better degree than before), my search for alternatives back then turned up rdiff-backup.

    Not only has it always been versatile as far as the hardware it uses--for my SOHO server, an external USB Harddrive is the ticket, one that I can just snatch and carry with me if natural disaster threatens, e.g.--but the METHOD of backup is superior to anything I've personally ever encountered.

    Backup AND restore are both a breeze.

    I'm sure that AMANDA is more appropriate for many (read "more servers") usage, but I've found rdiff-backup to be perfect for someone like me, with only a single server to worry about (althought that single server contains all my family's business and personal files--so to us, it's not such a trivial thing).

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