On 04/25/2014 09:57 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 04/25/14 10:44, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
>> On 4/25/2014 8:49 AM, compdoc wrote:
>>
>>> However, I think without open source Windows clients people won't take the
>>> considerable time it takes to learn how to install Bacula, and they will
>>> turn to other solutions.
>>
>> Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken and the 
>> rest of them are just as bad as bacula only more expensive. So they can 
>> turn to other solutions but it won't help.
> 
> If you have Windows 7 Pro, Windows Backup is actually fairly usable as
> an image-backup tool, though it's nearly worthless for file-level
> restore.

That, plus the part where it fails 80% of the time for no discernible
reason(*) is what I mean by broken. As for bare metal backup/recovery,
there are faster and easier ways.

* Official microshaft kb answer is "well, try rebooting into safe mode
and running it again and maybe the file it's complaining about won't be
complained about then".

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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