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Backup Program Chosen: AMANDA

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...]

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Posted 28 May 2007 † jordan § Backups ‡ Comments (2) °

AMANDA and Bacula: which backup program to choose?

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...]

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Posted 15 May 2007 † jordan § Backups ‡ Comments (0) °