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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