I'm putting together a backup system for maybe 1 TB of traditional office type data and 5 TB (now, +1 TB per 6 months) of static image data. The images are created once, never changed, and more images are created every day. Though the image data lends itself to backing up with something simple with rsync, I want to use exactly one backup methodology for everything.
I like rdiff-backup's method of maintaining one full copy and reverse differences to recover older versions. With traditional forward differences I have to run a full backup every so often and I really don't want to do that on so much data. In addition, you have to maintain two complete full backups to support the incrementals for your whole restoration window which doubles my storage. I like the catalog features of traditional backup software (Amanda, Bacula, BackupExec, etc). I like being able to search for a file and view all versions of it quickly. I also like that Windows ACLs and Mac resources are preserved with the OS-native clients for most of these apps. Unfortunately they all seemed designed for tape and even their disk backups emulate tape in that you can't go back and update the middle of a full backup like what rdiff-backup does. Is there a product that combines the cataloging and OS support of traditional solutions with the type of rotation that rdiff-backup can do? Is this product _not_ called "Netapp Filer"? :) +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
