I'm planning on giving bacula a try.  While reading through the
documentation, one item that I find confusing is that for Windows,
both VSS and "ntbackup backup systemstate" are both described.  Is
"ntbackup backup systemstate" still recommended, or does VSS render it
obsolete?  Compare:

  
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION004270000000000000000

  
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION0042140000000000000000

Also, how does one do multiple schedules while automatically keeping
hosts in sync?  In Amanda, setting up daily vs. monthly backups and
keeping the host list in sync is syntactically easy -- set up two
different config dirs, and symlink the hostlist from one into the
other.  So, when I add a host in to the dailies, it's also added in
monthlies.  I don't see an easy way to do this in bacula: seems like
one would have to define two sets of clients, one referring to one
schedule, one referring to the other.  This seems accident-prone.

Minor suggestion: the impression that I get from most of
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION004250000000000000000
is that bacula has all kinds of compatibility problems.  Only at the
end of that section does it say "Note: with Bacula versions 1.39.x and
later, non-portable Windows data can be restore to any machine."  You
might want to move that earlier.  :)

- Morty

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