Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >> In other words the length entered in the tapetype definition is only >> used for planning and scheduling. The "error" will normally be the end >> of tape "error", which allows for a variable amount of data actually >> being written to the tape, which would include allowing for variable >> hardware compression results. >> > > OK, That's nice to know. Other packages I've worked with have often used > fixed data size per volume. > > >> Also, I have no idea what you mean by "all or nothing restores". That's >> just wrong. >> > > My last experience with Amanda in anger was nearly 10 years ago... > > Again, some other backup packages can only restore a full fileset, or have > to run a full restore in order to pluck out specific files. > > Bacula's database takes individual file restore times from hours down to > minutes in most cases and that's something that the staff here are still > coming to terms with (We don't want to advertise this, Windows users erase > work-critical files often enough as it is...) > > AB
If my last experience with Bacula were 10 years ago, I might conclude that it couldn't do anything. ;-) That's a long long time for open source software. Open source in general has really expanded and accelerated over that time. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
