Hello,

I am interested in using bacula to backup several desktop systems 
(Windows XP and Snow Leopard). We have stopped using Retrospect because 
of its general unreliability and slow speed, and I am trying to 
determine if bacula will meet our needs.

With Retrospect, we backed up to hard drives and when a drive filled up, 
Retrospect would ask us to add a new drive to its "media set". We were 
then able to unmount and eject the old drive, then place it on a shelf 
in an anti-static bag.

I have set up a system running Ubuntu, and it has four eSATA plugs. From 
what I have read so far, I believe that bacula is able to write the 
backups into files on a single hard drive, but I'm confused about what 
happens when the drive fills up. I do not want to use RAID or anything 
LVM-related, since that would prevent us from being able to take old 
volumes offline. Is there a way to make bacula work in a similar way to 
how Retrospect did (minus the unreliability and slowness:)?

Thanks!
Matt

-- 
Matt Coleman
Audio Engineer - Studio B
Digital Domain
www.digido.com
(800) 344-4361
(407) 831-0233


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