> > > Do any of you have opinions about backups software for backing up a dozen
> > > or two NetBSD and Windows machines?  I looked at Amanda, but it appears to
> > > have serious limitations, such as a backup image not being able to span
> > > more than one tape.
> > 
> > This is only an issue if you have partitions larger than the tape's capacity
> 
> The advertized capacity of an Exabyte Mammoth II is 150 GB on a 225m tape
> cartridge.

Many partitions are larger than DAT tapes, especially now that hard disks
are big and software RAID is easy.  So to use Amanda, I'd need to break
filesystems down into smaller partitions or use more expensive hardware.

The Exabyte Mammoth II looks neat, I found a writeup about it at
http://www.sresearch.com/sp_exabyte9809.htm  Doing further reading, it
looks like the native uncompressed capacity of the Mammoth II tapes is 60
GB.  The drive costs between 4 or 5 grand, and the tapes cost about $100 a
piece.

Ben
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Code softly and carry a big debugger.