[lug] NAS - OpenNAS, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, or COTS?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/05/2014 10:25 PM, Glenn English wrote:
> 
> On Dec 5, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
>> any particular
>> thoughts?
> 
> I've used Amanda on Linux with tape for years (I'm told it works with disks now). CLI, cron driven here, but rock solid.
> 

Amanda is very useful for when you have more data to backup than you can do in
one backup run, and when the data is fairly compressible.  But modern
rsync/snapshot systems probably have an edge on being able to keep lots of
revisions depending on rate of data change.

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