On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:52:28PM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 10:34 -0600, Doran Barton wrote: > > Our client that uses bacula was using NetVault for Linux for a while and > > bacula ROCKS, big time, compared to NetVault. > > We moved from NetVault to Bacula and I would recommend it. NetVault has > a lot of quirks and for the price didn't seem to work all that well. > > More and more we've been moving to online disk backups. Tape is slow and > expensive. The one advantage of tape is that you can take it off site > for long term storage. That may be of interest for you. For us, not so > much. With Bacula you can create virtual tape drives on disk and still > take advantage of the scheduling and such. I've got a handful of servers > doing that as well. In other cases we're using rsync. And in yet others > we rely on application level mirroring. Just depends on what your > recovery needs are.
You can do the same virtual tape trick with Amanda. And if you rsync your virtual tapes to a USB external drive, well, there's your offsite backup. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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