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We use Bacula at three different sites, with three different DLT-based |
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autochangers. We are very happy with the software as well as the |
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responsiveness of the development community. Our most complex site has |
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Bacula running on a server connected to a 4-drive, 48-slot autochanger. |
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Bacula handles multiple simultaneous backups to the same drive, as well as |
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control of the robot for swapping out tapes for all 4 drives. It allows |
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(currently 3) choices for your media database, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. |
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I have no experience with the others you mention. |
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Good luck... and let us know what you choose and why... |
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Anthony |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez [mailto:jgonzalez@×××××××××××.com] |
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Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:49 PM |
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To: gentoo-server@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-server] Backup software |
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Hi there, |
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I sent this to the gentoo-user list without much success, I hope in |
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the server list there are more people doing backups... you know what |
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they say: "there are only two kind of people: those doing backups and |
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those that never lost any data". I hope I become one of the third kind, |
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those that never lost any data but are doing backups :o) |
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I'm searching for some backup software with the following requirements: |
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* Capability to scale from a single machine to backups of full |
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networks, including heterogeneous OS (Linux, Windows,...) |
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* Capability to do full or incremental backups |
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* Network friendly (don't wanna have my network down because the |
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backup traffic ate all the bandwidth) |
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* Possibility of using different backup media (tape, CD, DVD, HD,...) |
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* Ease of maintenance and recovery, preferably with unattended |
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operation (don't wanna be hanging around changing tapes) |
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* Snapshot backups of live file systems (don't wanna have to stop my |
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web/mail/database server to do the backup) |
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* Ready to go (so please, don't tell me to use tar / cpio / mt) |
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* Of course open source |
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After a preliminary search, I've found Amanda, Mondo Rescue and |
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Bacula, all of them in portage. I would like to hear experiences, and |
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thoughts about this. |
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Thanks in advance, best regards |
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Jose |
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