Hi, I don't know if this was mentioned while I was absent from the list, but it's interesting:
The German magazine ix has, in its September issue, as article presenting and comparing free backup software. They compare Amanda, Bacula and BackupPC. Some of their impressions are: - OSS is an option for enterprise backup - the presented products are usable in heterogenous systems, though with limitations - bare metal recovery capabilities are limited. Some key arguments pro or contra the presented solutions are: Amanda: + Holding disk + Backup on demand + amcheck - Documentation - hard to set up Bacula: + Documentation + tapetest (btape's test commands) + Encryption + native clients for Win32 and MacOS X - no backup on demand (client-initiated) BackupPC: + Deduplication + Web-based management + Authentication (apache) - No tape support Not much to argue, here, IMO. It is probably possible to buy that article on-line, once the next issue of the magazine is out. The article is, IMO, worth to be read. If you consider using Bacula, it's surely also useful to ask on the list, too - it's impossible to give a detailed description of Bacula on about one side of printed text (the same is true for BackupPC and Amanda, of course). I hope this is interesting for some of you, Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
