Sorry for not qualifying myself. I do not hate Baclua, but it is not the best for small operations!! Bacula is is _extremely_ well documented!! However, the people that were likely to replace me still would have to spend at least 2-3 days learning it. On top of that I absolutely gurantee they would not spend the time learning it until they needed a file restored. For a large operation, 15+ servers I think Bacula would be great solution! Brock On 4/13/05, Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:20:29AM -0500, Brock Noland wrote: > > The biggest problem I had was that if I left, no one else would ANY > > idea about how to use it. > > It is a very well documented software package. I find it hard to > believe that your replacement would be illiterate. A well documented > deployment, as we all should probably have, would definitely help as > well. > > bacula - Network backup, recovery and verification (Meta-package) > bacula-client - Network backup, recovery and verification (Client meta-package) > bacula-common - Network backup, recovery and verification (Common Support files) > bacula-console - Network backup, recovery and verification (Mgmt. Console) > bacula-console-gnome - Network backup, recovery and verification (Console, Gnome version) > bacula-director-common - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director common files) > bacula-director-mysql - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon) > bacula-director-pgsql - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon) > bacula-director-sqlite - Network backup, recovery and verification (Director daemon) > bacula-doc - Network backup, recovery and verification - Documentation > bacula-fd - Network backup, recovery and verification (Filer daemon) > bacula-sd - Network backup, recovery and verification (Storage daemon) > bacula-server - Network backup, recovery and verification (Server meta-package) > bacula-wxconsole - Network backup, recovery and verification (Console, Gnome version) > > > The BIGGEST problem for me was that there was no way to let users > > restore there own files. > > Traditional and many commercial backup system don't allow this. > Bacula was designed to compete with these. I will point out that the > documentation for Bacula hints to a wxWidget application called > Console:: > > Bacula Console services is the program that allows the > administrator or user to communicate with the Bacula Director (see > above). Currently, the Bacula Console is available in three > versions. The first and simplest is to run the Console program in > a shell window (i.e. TTY interface). Most system administrators > will find this completely adequate. The second version is a GNOME > GUI interface that for the moment (23 November 2003) is far from > complete, but quite functional as it has most the capabilities of > the shell Console. The third version is a wxWidgets GUI with an > interactive file restore. It also has most the capabilities of the > shell console, allows command completion with tabulation, and > gives you instant help about the command you are typing. For more > details see the Bacula Console Design Document. > > As far as a project that has promise for the future, Bacula is > something worth looking into, as far as I'm concerned. It is quite > attractive compared to home-rolled systems (no offense intended), > though it sounds like BackupPC is quite featureful. > > backuppc - high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs > libfile-rsyncp-perl - A perl based implementation of an Rsync client > > Personally, I'm quite happy with Amanda Backup, though I have had a > long history with it and understand how to set it up quickly. Now > that you can back up to hard drive fairly easily, it's even more > useful to me. My favorite feature of Amanda is its ability to > automatically plan full and incremental backups and balance them > across the full tapeset. Amanda is VERY good at efficiently using the > entire "tape" (whether the tape is physical or a virtual filesystem > based one). Where it lacks is in front-end utilities... Again, > Brock's biggest feature need would not be met: user-initiated and > controlled restores. > > amanda-client - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client) > amanda-common - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Libs) > amanda-server - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Server) > cdrw-taper - taper replacement for amanda to support backups to CD-RW or DVD+RW > mtx - controls tape autochangers > > Amanda has recently received more attention, both from a development > and a user standpoint. I expect to see more user-friendly tools in > the relatively near future. Were I to invest time into learning a new > system, Bacula would probably be it. > > Other backup packages that matched the search for "amanda": > > chiark-backup - backup system for small systems and networks > flexbackup - Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized installations > > One other project to look at is Mondo Backup and Restore. Very cool > idea. Makes it simple to create recovery CD's for your Linux and > Windows systems: basically any filesystem that Linux can read/write. > Optionally, it'll use partimage to make a dd image copy of partitions > it can't read. You could, and people have, set up a mondo backup > routine that creates images on an NFS/SMB share. > > mindi - creates boot/root disks based on your system > mindi-busybox - Collection of shell utilities in a single executable for Mindi/Mondo > mindi-kernel - failsafe Linux kernel for Mindi/Mondo > mindi-partimagehack - disk partition imaging utility for Mindi/Mondo > mondo - powerful disaster recovery suite > mondo-doc - manual for Mondo, a powerful disaster recovery suite > > -- > Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ > assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- "There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." 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