The Computing Services team has made a few changes that we hope will improve the printing services provided at Thayer School:
- In “room” 201 (the balcony overlooking the great hall), we have added a dedicated transparency printer, 201-color-trans. This means that there are now two dedicated, high speed color printers in 201: 201-color-paper and 201-2-color-paper.
- We have put a color printer in room M210 named m210-color. Both m210-color and m210 now use a print release station (located next to the printers) to release print jobs as required.
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After performance and feature testing AMANDA and Bacula, we’ve decided to go with AMANDA. The speed that AMANDA was able to backup data over the network was nearly twice that of Bacula (80 MB/s compared to 40 MB/s), and AMANDA was slightly faster pushing data to tape (77 MB/s compared to 63 MB/s). The speed advantages that AMANDA showed within our topology were significant enough to warrant it as our backup program of choice. That being said, within other topologies and with different needs, I [snip...]
An important part of any enterprise level storage system is the backup system. For our new inexpensive storage system, we want to find a piece of backup software that is both inexpensive (preferably free) as well as functional. My search for such a program has led to two main candidates: AMANDA and Bacula. I’ll start with AMANDA as that is where my testing began.
AMANDA approaches backups by using native programs such as postfix, tar, dump, xfsdump, etc within a client/server relationship. The [snip...]
