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I'm actually looking very closely at Bacula right now. Looks like it |
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can handle Win32 clients AND Mac OS X clients which is a definite |
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improvement over Amanda for me. Amanda can handle Win32 clients btw |
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using samba. |
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The GUI is pretty low on my priority list. Being able to support Mac |
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OS X clients is way more important to me than having a working GUI. |
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For those of you who haven't seen Bacula before here's a quick rundown |
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of what I've found out so far: |
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- Uses a MySQL database to record backup statistics, indexes, etc |
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- Can back up Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac clients over a network |
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- Can append to tapes and span multiple tapes |
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- Works with most tape devices |
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- Can back up to file or to tape |
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- Uses a modular configuration system which seems much better than |
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Amanda's |
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- Doesn't require xinetd/inetd (yay!) |
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The bacula home page is here: |
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http://www.bacula.org |
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Bacula seems to be much more flexible than Amanda. Barring any |
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insights from the list before I get home I'm going to set it up using a |
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spare DLT drive tonight and see how things go. |
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Bryn |
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On Mar 22, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Tobias Orlamuende wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> have you had a look at bacula (bacula.org). |
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> I am playing around with it at the moment. It's quite heavy to setup |
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> but if |
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> it's running it is really useful. |
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> The biggest advantage (for me) is the fact that it can backup from |
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> Windows |
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> (using an agent). AFAIK it is the only OpenSource-tool which can do |
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> that. |
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> There might be one disadvantage: The GUI provided is nearly unusable in |
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> productive environment. Maybe there is coming a new, heavily improved |
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> one. |
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> IMHO it's worth to have a look. |
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> |
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> Greetings |
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> |
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> Tobias |
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> |
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> Am Montag, 22. März 2004 18:41 schrieb Bryn Hughes: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> |
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>> I'm wondering what everyone is using to back up their Gentoo servers. |
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>> Right now I'm using Amanda which works fairly well but I'm thinking |
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>> about changing over to something new. |
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>> |
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>> My environment: |
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>> - 2 servers, about 120 gigs total disk space between them |
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>> - a 75G (native) DLT tape library (Quantum 4500 with 15G tapes) |
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>> |
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>> What I like about amanda: |
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>> - network backup, one server controls everything |
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>> - point-in-time restore (I can choose to restore a file from last week |
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>> and it will tell me what tape it needs) |
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>> - decently reliable after initial setup |
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>> - intelligent planning of incremental backups automatically |
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>> |
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>> What I don't like about amanda: |
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>> - can't append to the previous day's tape (lots of tapes that only get |
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>> 15% full or so with incrementals) |
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>> - large dumps cannot span multiple tapes |
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>> - handling of above results in amanda spending hours writing to a tape |
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>> just to start all over again on the next tape when it runs out of |
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>> space |
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>> - no GUI |
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>> |
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>> I want to find something that uses my tapes more effectively and |
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>> wastes |
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>> less time than amanda. What I don't want to loose is the indexing |
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>> functions and the ability to backup both my servers (and as many more |
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>> as I add in the future) without having to actually mount the |
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>> partitions |
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>> to be backed up to the backup server. |
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>> |
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>> Anyone have any thoughts? I've been poking around and I've found BURT |
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>> but that doesn't seem to have any activity since 1999 or so. Bacula |
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>> looks promising also (in fact right now it seems to be the closest to |
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>> what I'm looking for). Anyone have any experience? |
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>> |
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>> Bryn |