[Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Our intern has enough Linux knowledge to do this and he will be assisted by my colleague who knows a lot about unix systems. I'm trying to make an assignment which will benefit both of us. He will start by backing the clients and if all goes well we will take a look if Bacula can make backups to tapes for the servers. Thank you for your help! --- Jonathanb +-- |This was sent by nathan.burgerh...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Simple answer. YES Bacula has clients for windows and source code or binaries for Linux an Linux derived systems. You can either back up to tape or my preferred is to disk. I treat the backup disks as if they were tapes and maintain an on site backup and an off site one. I take the drives in their caddies from the backup server and put them in a flight case to store them over one aeroplane's wing away. ---Guy (via iPhone) On 4 Dec 2011, at 10:01, jonathanb bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Our intern has enough Linux knowledge to do this and he will be assisted by my colleague who knows a lot about unix systems. I'm trying to make an assignment which will benefit both of us. He will start by backing the clients and if all goes well we will take a look if Bacula can make backups to tapes for the servers. Thank you for your help! --- Jonathanb +-- |This was sent by nathan.burgerh...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Hello everyone, Bacula is one of the programs that I found on google when I was searching for a solution for my problem. I have a small network with approximately 8 clients and 5 servers with Linux (Debian) and Windows (Vista and Win7) on them. One of the five servers is going to be a Proxmox VE server where we are going to install a backup solution. We want to backup all the client and servers remotely with a not to difficult interface, because our intern is going to realize this idea. Is Bacula the answer to this? Thanks in advance! -- Jonathanb +-- |This was sent by nathan.burgerh...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Excerpts from jonathanb's message of Sat Dec 03 14:10:56 -0500 2011: Hi Jonathan, I have a small network with approximately 8 clients and 5 servers with Linux (Debian) and Windows (Vista and Win7) on them. One of the five servers is going to be a Proxmox VE server where we are going to install a backup solution. We want to backup all the client and servers remotely with a not to difficult interface, because our intern is going to realize this idea. Is Bacula the answer to this? I think that bacula can definitely meet your needs, but I'd urge you to ensure that someone on your normal staff is working with your intern. Backups are far too important to trust to a single person...especially one that's (presumably) just getting their 'sea legs' under them. :) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Bacula can certainly do what you are looking for. What I would be concerned about is putting an intern in charge of your backup solution - any backup solution. When disaster strikes, who will remember how the backup works and how to restore? The other concern is that network backup requires some experience with networking, to deal with such things as performance/backup windows, shoeshining (if you use tape for backup), security, ... On the flip side, bacula actually is a great learning experience for the intern. -Original Message- From: jonathanb [mailto:bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 11:11 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux? Hello everyone, Bacula is one of the programs that I found on google when I was searching for a solution for my problem. I have a small network with approximately 8 clients and 5 servers with Linux (Debian) and Windows (Vista and Win7) on them. One of the five servers is going to be a Proxmox VE server where we are going to install a backup solution. We want to backup all the client and servers remotely with a not to difficult interface, because our intern is going to realize this idea. Is Bacula the answer to this? Thanks in advance! -- Jonathanb +-- |This was sent by nathan.burgerh...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:10:56AM -0800, jonathanb wrote: Bacula is one of the programs that I found on google when I was searching for a solution for my problem. I have a small network with approximately 8 clients and 5 servers with Linux (Debian) and Windows (Vista and Win7) on them. Bacula file daemons (FDs)--the programs that read data to be backed up and send it to a Bacula storage server--are available for POSIX systems and Windows. One of the five servers is going to be a Proxmox VE server where we are going to install a backup solution. We want to backup all the client and servers remotely I'm not quite sure what do you mean by remotely here. If you mean that you want a backup server to pull the data from its clients and manage its storage (as opposed to clients keeping it by themselves) then Bacula does exactly this. with a not to difficult interface, because our intern is going to realize this idea. Is Bacula the answer to this? While being mildly in fear of possibly provoking a debate, I'd not say that Bacula's interface is not too difficult. While Bacula maintains certain rather strong expectations about its workflow, it provides for great flexibility about how it's organized by an administrator. And it has several concepts of which you can hardly escape learning about--no matter how simple your setup is expected to be, for instance you have to understand pools, media and schedules. All this comes at a price: I'd say it's futile to try to grok Bacula without reading at least essential bits of its documentation up front. Also your intern is expected to be familiar with the concept of textual configuration files (I know some Windows-only persons are notoriously bad at this sort of thing). On the other hand I suspect any sufficiently complicated backup solutuion will require a certain degree of understanding and learning to work with. Simly due to an inherent complexity of the task. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
