How The Backup Process Has Changed

How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Nov 29, 2007 19:03 UTC (Thu) by vmole (subscriber, #111)
In reply to: How The Backup Process Has Changed by chema
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed

Well then, let me promote Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/). It's overkill for backing up a single PC to a spare disk, but once you get more than a few clients, having eveything organized in one spot is much nicer than dealing with a bunch of ad-hoc rsync scripts. Bacula supports a wide variety of tapes, tape changers, and disk-based volumes, and DVDs. You can schedule full backups, differential, and incremental. You can run scripts on the clients before and after backups (to e.g. dump databases, stop and start processes, etc.) Supports Windoze, OSX, and most unix-like OSes as clients; while you can build (or download) the server for Windows, it's not the main development platform.

I used it at work, backing up a wide variety of systems, and use it at home. Very satisfied.

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