On 6/20/05, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 20 June 2005 11:21, Siju George wrote: > > On 6/20/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 12:36 +0300, kalasala wrote: > > > > http://www.amanda.org/ > > > > > > Well, Amanda is really for backing up multiple servers to a single > > > archiving device isn't it? As the original poster didn't state what he > > > wanted backed up I presume it's a desktop machine. > > > > Thanks simon for asking :-) > > > > I have a Sarge installed that I would want to run as a backup server. > > this server will take backups from other Linux/BSD/Solaris/MS Windows > > systems. The backup will be stored on hard disk (mirrored) for now but > > later it will be taken to DVDs. > > > > kind regards > > > > Siju > The description above of Amanda is nearly right, if you change the > word servers on the first line to systems. It works perfectly well with > desktops, less well with laptops but still can be used. > > There are clients for Amanda which will work on all the systems you > name, and the server (last time I looked) had to run on Linux so you are > in good shape. >
Thanks a lot David, Simon, Dave, Lee and Kalasala. what do you suggest Amanda or Bacula? thankyou all so much :-) Kind regards Siju
