Backup software

[Matt Shields]

I'm looking for recommendations for backup software that's out there.
Our current needs are to backup Linux servers as well as some Windows
file servers and Exchange (Exchange can be dumped and picked up that
way if necessary).

I originally setup Bacula 3 years ago and have loved it for the
following reasons:
1. we have numerous datacenters (and keep adding them) and want to
backup to a local backup device, not across the net
2. we want one management system that controls all the backup systems
3. we want a system that supports both disk and tape media.  disk for
short term fast retrieval, tape for long term offsite storage

I personally think this is the best solution out there and it's
working, but we're in the process of rebuilding the backup systems and
I've been told that we need to re-evaluate if it's the solution for
us.  So is there anything better out there?  And from what I
understand Amanda doesn't have the distributed architecture that
Bacula has.

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[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:21:11PM -0400, Matt Shields wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for backup software that's out there.

I pay a pot-smoking Indian swami to divine my thoughts via a hybrid
ESP/deja vu method where he can figure out what I'm about to create
before I create it.  Going with the Google theory of at least three
copies, widely dispersed, he then shares these thoughts with a
semi-sentient colony of Jupiterian gasbags, and one of the plasma-based
beings on Nebulon-Wilkes-Barre-IV whose name and visage causes instant
paralysis among humans.

I figure my data is prety safe.  Restores are a bitch though.

Oh, wait, you mean "out there" like "publicly available".... nevermind.

-ben

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[jbk]

Matt Shields wrote:

> I'm looking for recommendations for backup software that's out there.
> Our current needs are to backup Linux servers as well as some Windows
> file servers and Exchange (Exchange can be dumped and picked up that
> way if necessary).
>
> I originally setup Bacula 3 years ago and have loved it for the
> following reasons:
> 1. we have numerous datacenters (and keep adding them) and want to
> backup to a local backup device, not across the net
> 2. we want one management system that controls all the backup systems
> 3. we want a system that supports both disk and tape media.  disk for
> short term fast retrieval, tape for long term offsite storage
>
> I personally think this is the best solution out there and it's
> working, but we're in the process of rebuilding the backup systems and
> I've been told that we need to re-evaluate if it's the solution for
> us.  So is there anything better out there?  And from what I
> understand Amanda doesn't have the distributed architecture that
> Bacula has.
>

I use Backuppc. It is well supported by a community of
people and has the ability to do the things you require. I'm
not a sys admin and was able to set it up for automatic
backups of my server, laptop and family MS desktop using
rsync rsyncd, and smbtar. It has good documentation and a
user list that is very active.

Jim KR

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