Linked by Chander Kant on Tue 29th Nov 2005 08:51 UTC
This was a mixed Thanksgiving weekend for open source communities. We
had a renewed PR onslaught from proprietary software vendors ("Linux
is anti-commercial") and even hardball politics.
But there were lot of interesting announcements made: Firefox 1.5,
codenamed "Deer Park" will finally be unwrapped on November 29th (I
have been using the beta, and I love it). Among all this activity and
with little fan-fare, the Amanda project launched its new Wiki and Forums.
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Member since:But Bacula's founder, Kern Sibbald, is committed to format stability. The format is documented and therefore I think you can read your old taped even in 10,20 years (if your hardware is in place, that is).
There are statically linked restore tools and even a rescue disk so you can do a bare-metal restore.
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One big advantage that Amanda has over Bacula is that it uses unix native utilities for storage of data (tar and dump). So, even if Amanda engine is not working you can use your age old tools to recover. Bacula uses its own (somewhat strange) format.
This is considered a big enough advantage at our site.