Backing up several Windows machines to a Linux server

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 17:19 -0600, Dale Sykora wrote:
> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 

> > 	1. Amanda (http://www.amanda.org) only seems to do backups to tape,
> > yuck! I definitely want to back up to a hard drive: much faster and much
> > cheaper, and I can then replicate the data store and take it home on my
> > notebook. :-) At most we will have 10GB or 20GB of backups, not
> > terabytes or anything huge.
> > 
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amanda does do file backup
amanda does have clients for other OS's
amanda uses standard tar
amanda is extremely powerful but yes, is optimized for tapes

My own experience is amanda is tough to get going and great once you get
it.

Craig