Re: [Sheflug] Networked backup

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 	Since we now have an (ever) growing collection of Linux/BSD
> servers in the lab, I thought it'd be nice to have some sort of
> networked backup facility, by which stuff is copied overnight to a host
> in our network, stays on the harddrive of that host and some of that
> stuff is actually backed up to a zip drive (the reason for this is that
> I can't be bothered changing disks, and most of the other data is
> already backed up in CDs in another room, being far too far to walk :D).

Admin at our lab in .au swears by Amanda.  We use DAT tapes, so it gives a
wonderful excuse to make jokes about "Mounting Amanda".

We can also confuse newbies by saying that "Amanda's sending Daniel (the
SysAdmin) nasty mail (about not putting in a new tape)" and the newbie
replies with "Gee, he must have a real harsh girlfriend".  He's a real
computer nerd, though - no time for a girlfriend - just amanda.

Hmm, half a line of answer, a half dozen lines of reminiscence.  Oh dear...


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