Another vote for Bacula here. I had trouble with its volume rotation before but it was my fault not reading/understanding the documentations. It hasn't failed me for the last 5 years.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Heinlein Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 1:24 PM To: LOPSA Technical Discussions Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Backup Reliability On Sun, 12 May 2013, Skylar Thompson wrote: > On 05/12/2013 10:26 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote: >> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Skylar Thompson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > How do you define reliability? >> I think that that's a darned good question. Skylar's pair of points >> misses a key definition. As a guy from Keane that I used to work >> with said, no one cares about backups, they only care about >> restores. >From the customer's perspective -- which for me is the only perspective that >really counts -- restoration *is* the service; backup is just the tool that >facilitates it. I've only had to do about one restoration per year over the eight years I've been at $WORK (small engineering-heavy company). Bacula (+ LTO) has never failed me during that time. I won't claim that it's any better than the other tools mention in the OP's list; my point is that I've found Bacula to be reliable. (I do agree with the person who lamented Bacula's oft-confusing interface and documentation.) If Bacula's catalog is hosted on traditional hard disks, it can take several minutes to build the dump-like interface to the filesystem to be restored. I still spool to HDs, but I've moved MySQL to SSDs, and it's much much much speedier now. I've deployed rdiff-backup at home, and on a much smaller scale, but I've never done anything but test restores with it. -- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
