Re: Backup Scripts - can o worms

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 05:04, Tom Allison wrote:
> > These are the packages I can get from Debian.
> > Amanda is not one of them.
>
>
> Thats amazeing to me, and a bit of an enlightenment regarding the 
> maintainers of debian.  See <http://www.amanda.org>, its a program 
> thats been usable, and yet still in active development for well over 
> a decade now.  I'm currently running the 2.4.5b1-20050329 release.
> There are, from time to time, packages built for the various packaging 
> systems, but the tarball is so easy to build I haven't used anythng 
> else now in 7+ years.

$ apt-cache search amanda
amanda-client - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)
amanda-common - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Libs)
amanda-server - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server)
cdrw-taper - taper replacement for amanda to support backups to CD-RW or 
DVD+RW
chiark-backup - backup system for small systems and networks
flexbackup - Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized installations
mtx - controls tape autochangers