Hello,
2013/8/14 Mark <bacula-l...@nerdish.us>
> Hi Barak,
>
> >> If I can't ever get a full because of unstable links then bacula
> >> is useless in my particular setup.
>
> Out of curiosity, what backup product are you currently using that _does_
> cleanly handle loss of communication between the client and the backup
> server, resuming the next backup at exactly there the previous one failed?
>
This situation is perfectly handled by Bacula Enterprise with Incomplete
Jobs. It require Accurate Job option.
> I don't know how many remote sites you're going to be backing up, but if
> it were me and just a few sites, I'd probably deploy a bacula host in each
> site (you don't need a lot of expensive server horsepower to deploy a
> perfectly functional and reliable bacula server). If your links are
> unstable enough that it's a problem for backups, then imagine when you need
> to do restores and you're having those same circuit stability issues while
> everyone is frantically asking you, "How much longer?!?!". People don't
> much care if a backup takes 8 hours overnight, but they care *immensely*
> when everything has ground to a halt during a business day and you're
> explaining that the restore will take that same 8+ hours, and may have to
> start over completely because your links are bad. At restore time, I'd
> much rather be restoring at near wire speed from a local system.
>
It depend on requirements. Sometimes data is worth more then time to
recover, sometimes in case of disaster you will recover locally, not to the
remote site... etc.
best regards
--
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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