David Brown wrote:
> 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.
Well that's interesting, because apparently either I don't understand what you
are saying or the web page is inaccurate. I have restored from bacula backups
and have gotten all the data, up to and including the most recent incremental.
I had a catastrophic system failure and had to restore from backup.
So who exactly says it won't restore correctly, besides you?
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