On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:36, C. R. Oldham wrote: > We used to use Amanda before we got a tape library and began backing up > all our servers into the library. We have a heterogenous network > (Linux, Win2000 with Exchange, Oracle). My experience with Amanda is > that it works pretty well if you > are doing Unix clients only, but doing a heterogenous network requires > lots of scripting. Plus Amanda doesn't drive tape changers/libraries > out of the box. It needs some scripting to do that as well.
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