Hi! I'm new here, so be gentle. :) I work for a non-profit with a mix of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux servers/desktops/laptops. As our needs and equipment base has grown, backups have always been some
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:47:24 -0700
This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very often, backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they don't hold any data (because the data is stored on a server
Hello and welcome here! I hope that, together with our community, you get your questions answered to your full satisfaction. I'll try to give you some hints... Actually, I'd like to know more about t
Author: "Jayson Broughton" <jbroughton AT truecos DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:45:29 -0600
Steven, We are actually new to bacula as well. Just now starting to configure it in a test environment for laptops/desktops. As we do not use exchange here, nor do we use folder re-direction, our set
Life would be simple if everyone followed rules... ;) I have tried the enforcement route for too long, but it just isn't going to happen so I have to resort to protecting them from themselves. And we
Thanks for the thoughts! I just don't know that Bacula will quite fit here, because we have travelers on a regular basis overseas, it's not uncommon for some of them to not be in the office for a wee
My only questions is, given it's extensive use of hardlinks to minimize the pool size, if there anything special needed when backing it up to tape to minimize storage space on tape much like is done
Author: "Jayson Broughton" <jbroughton AT truecos DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:32:23 -0600
Thanks for the thoughts! << I just don't know that Bacula will quite fit here, because we have travelers on a regular basis overseas, it's not uncommon for some of them to not be in the office for a
I actually have gone that route with the travellers, and Apple's Mac OS X implementation they call "Time Machine" does a phenomenal job, they don't even have to do anything besides plug the drive in.
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:00:14 -0700
Oh, I hear you on that! I'm not familiar enough with OS X, but how about some kind of rsync-based mechanism to back up the local content? It could probably be a server-based script if you have a way
Author: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:40:57 +0200
Steven Palm schrieb: I'm using bacula and backuppc. I once lost the whole 4 TB backuppc cpool due to a hardware/xfs error and way glad to have a second backup system... Backing up the backuppc pool w
Author: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:54:52 -0700
Oh, I hear you on that! I'm not familiar enough with OS X, but how about some kind of rsync-based mechanism to back up the local content? It could probably be a server-based script if you have a way
Hi, No. All I know about hard links is that Bacula needs some space for the necessary bookkeeping, but storing those on disk is nothing very exciting. It's more or less just like a hard link on disk