On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:31:21PM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote: > > I'm using bacula to backup the generated tar files and have them deleted > > afterwards. > > This is off-topic, I apologize, but if you are using Bacula, then why do > you have a BackupPC installation?
There are several reasons: - BackupPC was deployed first and it works well. Never change a running system if it suits all your needs (so far). - We're backing up multiple hosts over Internet. Rsync saves us a lot of bandwidth. - Bacula has two purposes for us: provide offsite backup to tape and store our database dumps (where BackupPC isn't good at because the files change each day - about 70Gb each day) - IMO it is easier to restore files to a server using BackupPC - e.g. after reinstall - it just needs ssh running and rsync installed. - I didn't like the extra bacula client on servers. But I didn't look deeply into it either. - BackupPC has a nice Web interface. We've had troubles finding a working bat when we installed Bacula (it might have been improved, but I'm a bit anxious to update our Bacula 2.2.x to 3.0) - we're a SuSE shop and had lots of segfaults etc. Counter-question: Why should I use Bacula instead? (I'm serious, I'm interested in possible reasons I might have missed.) Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
