Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-23 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, John Goerzen wrote: Quite simply: In a professional environment, if your full overnight backups do not fit on a single tape then you either need an adequately sized changer or larger tapes. Simple economic calculations will show that staff costs will easily exceed that of

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have only ever used Amanda with the tar backend (never dump), so I can only speak to that. Amanda's tar backend works exclusively with, and requires, GNU tar. Amanda uses GNU tar's listed incremental mode. See

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/21/2006 9:39 PM, John Goerzen wrote: Hello, I have been using Amanda for backup for quite a few years now. I'm interested in Bacula and have read through most of the (large!) manual. Bacula looks like a nice piece of software, but there are several things that concern me about it.

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread Alan Brown
That is correct. This feature is being worked on but for now, Bacula restores ALL files, including deleted and renamed ones. Most backup software works this way. 3) We perform backups overnight, when no operators are here, so as to minimize performance impact on our users. We have enough

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:23:46AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: tar's listed incremental mode is seriously broken; at least it was when I tried to use it - espeicially when combined with the --one-file-system option. Basicly it may omit whole directories, and different ones

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:49AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Another isse I see is the also metnioned feature to back up files based on the time stamps alone. This does not catch any renames, and it also does not catch NEW files with old time stamps (like when I download some stuff

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 04:53, John Goerzen wrote: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:29:08PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I'll let real users such as Michel Meyers and others answer most of the questions for you, but I thought I'd throw in a few minor comments. Hi Kern, Thanks for

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:11:10PM +, Alan Brown wrote: That is correct. This feature is being worked on but for now, Bacula restores ALL files, including deleted and renamed ones. Most backup software works this way.

[Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, I have been using Amanda for backup for quite a few years now. I'm interested in Bacula and have read through most of the (large!) manual. Bacula looks like a nice piece of software, but there are several things that concern me about it. 1) In the manual, it states that if you move files

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Goerzen wrote: Hello, I have been using Amanda for backup for quite a few years now. I'm interested in Bacula and have read through most of the (large!) manual. Bacula looks like a nice piece of software, but there are several things that

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I'll let real users such as Michel Meyers and others answer most of the questions for you, but I thought I'd throw in a few minor comments. On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21:39, John Goerzen wrote: Hello, I have been using Amanda for backup for quite a few years now. I'm interested in

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:59:03PM +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: Hi Michel, Thanks for your insight. A couple of comments: 2) I'm concerned that incremental and differential backups don't notice deleted files. When we restore from that, we could wind up with thousands of deleted or renamed