On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 7:29 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> > > In 2008, I looked at several options to backup the machines on my home > > > network. I settled on bacula, because at the time it had the most > > > options and was the easiest to configure(from my point of view). > > > Since that time, I've been backing up Linux clients and servers, > > > Windows servers and OSX clients with few issues. I run the director > > > on a Linux server that hosts a RAID5 array for storage. > > To add to this, Amanda assumes that a backup for a single host will fit on > one tape. Given the small size of a 359x tape, this assumption usually > fails in the 390 environment. Bacula can span multiple tapes. > There was a tape-spanning patch introduced for Amanda 5+ years ago. I remember using it at work, before we mostly abandoned backups in favor of snapshots and cross-site replication. I use Bacula at home to do backups to my tape library. Amanda seems more like a wrapper for tar, and Bacula seems more like an enterprise backup solution. I'm a bit surprised that Suse doesn't include Bacula. Pat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
