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Re: [LUG] Opinions on Bacula?

 

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:48:26 +0100
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:

> Quoting Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Interested in a network backup solution with Windows (SBS2008) as a
> > client machine.  Have looked into Bacula and it seems OK to me.
> > What are your opinions on it?  Any horror stories?  Etc, etc.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Grant. :)
> 
> I've used it in the past and for backing up to tapes etc it rocks  
> although it can be a bit complicated owing to the master/slave/file  
> daemon situation.
> 
> If you want to backup to disk and you can use SMB/CIFS or rsync,
> then I'd check out backupPc.  Don't let the title fool you, it works  
> incredibly well for servers and gives you a really nice web-gui to  
> restore from.
> 
> BackupPC also allows you to restore back to the original machine, to  
> another machine on the network, to another path on the original  
> machine or download as a file or zip/tgz.  In short, it rocks.
> 
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> 
> M.

BackupPC looks like it might do the trick.  Bacula looks nice, but
perhaps a little overkill for our needs... and I don't anticipate our
future growth requiring such a system.

Cheers Matthew.

Grant.

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