I've heard and read good things about Bacula. We opted for BackupPC for a few reasons, one of which is a fantastic web interface. Live and let live. :-)
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Monday, October 9, 2006, 10:33:45 PM, you wrote: > Dustin, > I am using Bacula to backup over 40 hosts (servers,workstations,and > laptops)over the network. This includes Linux and Windows OS's. Bacula > supports Mac OS, but haven't had the opportunity to try it on the Apple > OS. Bacula works with tape, disk storage, or DVD. Supports web based > applications to monitor usage. One word of warning, Bacula is configured > with a command tool set- no gui > Bob >> Hey Dustin >> >> My company has also recently changed our backup schemes. I did a lot of >> research and I found some very interesting NAS solutions for on-site and >> off-site backups. What we are using are Buffalo Terastation PRO?s. >> They?re small NAS boxes with 4 hot swappable drives with RAID (you can >> select custom raid levels on the web management interface). >> >> Because of our clients demand for these types of solutions we?ve become >> a certified Buffalo Tech product dealer. We will have a live interactive >> demonstration network setup at the Biz-Tech Expo on October 11th-12th at >> the River Center. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. I would love for you >> to come by and try it out and touch the box. Its one of the best >> bang-for-your-buck storage systems have had the pleasure to deal with. >> >> http://buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=129&categoryid=27 >> >> Also it?s a Linux-based product, PowerPC (PPC) processor running an >> embedded version of PPC Debian. >> >> P.S. we should do lunch sometime again soon, that PF Changs was good. >> >> >> Dustin Puryear wrote: >>> Hi, just wanted to make a quick note. For a long time we were using >>> tar to tape for a lot of Linux and Unix backups at client sites. >>> (That, or we used something like Lone-tar.) Recently, we've started >>> using BackupPC for disk-based backups (BackupPC also created archives >>> for off-site storage), and we love it. It works GREAT, has support for >>> Windows, and has one of the most disk-efficient pooling schemes I've >>> come across. >>> >>> --- >>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >>> http://www.puryear-it.com >>> >>> Author: >>> "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >>> "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" >>> >>> Download your free copies: >>> http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> General at brlug.net >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
