Posts Tagged with 'backups'

Using Amanda allows you quickly and easily implement a robust Open Source backup solution to almost any device, or even multiple devices simultaneously.

One problem faced by administrators of large and small networks alike is performing backups. While backups are simple to perform and a variety of software and hardware is available to help, the logistics of reliably archiving even a handful of machines are quite onerous. Having each user backup his or her own computer seems an obvious solution, but is really quite impractical: equipping each workstation and server with its own backup hardware is prohibitively expensive, and asking users to schedule and run their own backups is tantamount to ignoring the problem altogether.