Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?
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I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
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Zmanda is just Amanda under the hood. I setup Amanda a long time ago, and it works well, but was a huge pain in the ass to get going with.
I'll blame it on way to in-depth documentation and a case of keyboard-tourettes by who ever was writing the documentation. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
Zmanda is just Amanda under the hood. I setup Amanda a long time ago, and it works well, but was a huge pain in the ass to get going with.
I'll blame it on way to in-depth documentation and a case of keyboard-tourettes by who ever was writing the documentation. . .
That's why I didn't go with Amanda... it doesn't natively work with VSS and such on Windows and Hyper-V VSS.
But with Zmanda, they have all those bells and whistles worked out, it seems. I haven't tried Zmanda though.
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UrBackup on the other hand is so easy to get setup and going that it is borderline scary.
Setup server on linux, Windows or Mac, install agents on client systems.
Configure items to backup and then go drink . . . because the system is already working.
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@dustinb3403 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
UrBackup on the other hand is so easy to get setup and going that it is borderline scary.
Setup server on linux, Windows or Mac, install agents on client systems.
Configure items to backup and then go drink . . . because the system is already working.
That was my experience as well.
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@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.
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@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.
Almost forgot, I had a ticket open with them on this issue for 6 months with no action on it at all.
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@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.
Almost forgot, I had a ticket open with them on this issue for 6 months with no action on it at all.
I've not know anyone that has been happy with them in forever. Amanda was a neat idea in 2001 or whatever. It really has little to no place anymore.
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@scottalanmiller said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.
Almost forgot, I had a ticket open with them on this issue for 6 months with no action on it at all.
I've not know anyone that has been happy with them in forever. Amanda was a neat idea in 2001 or whatever. It really has little to no place anymore.
I wonder if they've updated their agent support matrix since then? At least for the Linux distros they officially supported, it was horribly old.
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@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@travisdh1 said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
@tim_g said in Anyone backing up a file server with 13 million plus files?:
I was looking at Zmanda a while back, looks like they added Windows Server 2016 to their compatibility matrix now.
Zmanda is just the "supported" version of Amanda, but their support sucked. Specifically they said "That error doesn't matter". Only that error mattered, because no backup could be restored from after getting said error. The only thing to show them is the door.
Almost forgot, I had a ticket open with them on this issue for 6 months with no action on it at all.
I've not know anyone that has been happy with them in forever. Amanda was a neat idea in 2001 or whatever. It really has little to no place anymore.
I wonder if they've updated their agent support matrix since then? At least for the Linux distros they officially supported, it was horribly old.
I look every few years... and nothing ever updates.
