On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:56:37AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
David Brown wrote:
Ugh, I guess this means I'm back to using tar, and writing my own
backup software. I have filed a bug report with SGI, so we'll see
where that goes.
Have you looked at bacula? I've tried most other backup systems and bacula
is the only one I have stuck with for any length of time.
Bacula falls under the list of "doesn't understand what an incremental
backup is". It's on their "not implemented page", but as far as I'm
concerned makes it utterly worthless. What exactly is the point of backup
software if it can't restore data that was on my machine at the time of
backup.
I really don't understand the point. Why would someone invest so much time
and effort into a backup program and not bother making it do the one thing
it needs to do correctly? Are there lots of people that like spending time
and effort performing backups that won't ever restore correctly?
Bacula has a voting system, and "accurate restores" still bubbles at
several down from the top. This is very strange to me.
Dave
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