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Hello,
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> Lastly, anyone here who has already made the switch, I'd love to hear
>> about how that went and what prompted you to switch.
As all the other items have already been answered, I'll just reply to
this bit. I moved away from Amanda (several years ago) for three reasons:
1. Amanda just stopped working for me due to its reliance on external
programs. I have to backup mostly Win32 machines which Amanda would do
through SMB. What I only found out after several months of getting
nowhere (I wasn't all too Linux savvy at the time) was that it used
smbclient for that and that smbclient had changed its output format
(they had added a single blank line and that had broken Amanda's ability
to back up my Windows machines). Bacula has a native File Daemon (agent)
for Win32 that does a great job at getting the files to the backup server.
2. The ability to append backups to tapes. The office doesn't have much
money, so using tapes efficiently by filling them to the brim is a
definite plus. Amanda wouldn't append to a tape hence wasting a lot of
space on them despite its scheduling. Bacula does this just fine,
provided you set up your tape drive correctly (use the btape tests, ...).
3. The ability to span backups over tapes. As the office grew, so did
their data and at some point in time, Amanda would simply have trouble
fitting jobs to the tapes. Bacula simply spans the job to the next
available tape when one is full (again, if the tape drive is set up
properly).
As for Amanda's 'smart scheduling' of jobs, I never really missed it. I
just put the appropriate resources to the task (a nice Quantum
Superloader 3 Autochanger that takes care of swapping the tapes as
required during the backup jobs) and never looked back.
Greetings,
Michel
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