On 06/06/2011 02:59 PM, Victor Villa wrote: > Greets oh wise PLUG collective that have pondered the depths of infinity, > space-time and that's just this past week. > > I come seeking advice on backup software solutions. > > I've read some great things about Zmanda, and Bacula looks pretty good. The > backup "server" is an i7 w 4GB RAM running ubuntu 11.04. The box has 2 hot > swap SATA bays in the front that I was hoping to backup to. > > Can anybody speak to either of the software above, or another FOSS solution?
I just recently rebuilt a Bacula server and I'm more pleased with it than I was before. I'm using a 16TB DroboPro FS as the backend storage with 1GB virtual tapes. I've got a mixture of Linux (Debian, Redhat & CentOS) and Windows clients, including an Exchange server. Not a problem with any of them. Actually, I take that back. Getting the Bacula client for Redhat 7.3 was a pain, but I can't exactly fault Bacula for that. Luckily, older clients do work very well with newer directors. And then within a week of getting everything running smoothly we had a major power failure and lost two servers. Bacula restore for both of them went very well and they were each running within a few hours. I couldn't ask for much more. I haven't gotten all my bacula configs merged into Puppet yet. I have it push out a bacula-fd.conf.template and I customize it by hand. Maybe someday. Corey
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