dharmabm Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 (edited) I know a few of you are sysadmins in mixed environments, i wonder if any of you are using anything as in the title. I manage a small AD environment, but use linux servers to do monitoring, CCTV, etc and am currently looking at Bacula, Amanda and BackupPC to replace the built-in windows backup currently used. Anyone have any experience with these tools? <edit> I should probably mention that I am looking to backup my DC, File server and a handful of windows clients, plus configs for my linux servers - nothing big, but I prefer something which I can easily browse the backup store for individual files/directories. So far it seems like Amanda may be best for that?</edit> Edited December 9, 2013 by dharmabm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmsnsa Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I'm been using Amanda uncomfortably for about 10 years. The reason i say uncomfortably is the companies that I have been working for are always too cheap to buy a commercial grade product. Amanda does do a lot, & it is stable (in any form). It also has a commercially purchasable product if you are looking for relatively easier cataloging of your back sets. The thing about Amanda is it is well documented so with a few hours you can get it going. If you looking for bare metal recovery it is possible using a live disk though I would suggest starting w/ a base OS first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dharmabm Posted December 9, 2013 Author Share Posted December 9, 2013 I'm been using Amanda uncomfortably for about 10 years. The reason i say uncomfortably is the companies that I have been working for are always too cheap to buy a commercial grade product. Amanda does do a lot, & it is stable (in any form). It also has a commercially purchasable product if you are looking for relatively easier cataloging of your back sets. The thing about Amanda is it is well documented so with a few hours you can get it going. If you looking for bare metal recovery it is possible using a live disk though I would suggest starting w/ a base OS first. Thanks for that, can you say why you chose Amanda over the other available options? I assume you may have done a comparison at some point? One other thing I should mention, I am hoping for something which has the ability to verify backup integrity, one of the things I dislike most about windows native backup. Also, I am not looking at open source because I am cheap (although I am!) but because I always prefer open source options when available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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