Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] How robust is Bacula?

2008-07-23 12:21:17
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How robust is Bacula?
From: Frank Sweetser <fs AT WPI DOT EDU>
To: "T. Horsnell" <tsh AT mrc-lmb.cam.ac DOT uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:20:28 -0400
T. Horsnell wrote:
> I'm intending to use Bacula to backup a large active system (16TBytes) 
> and would like to know users' experiences of how Bacula reacts when 
> things that it is backing up change/move/disappear. At the moment I'm 
> not so concerned how it handles device errors (as long as it notices 
> them and notifies me accordingly). I just dont want it to stop if, e.g, 
> one of the files it is backing up, changes size or disappears midstream.

In my experience, Bacula itself has been rock solid.  You can find some 
numbers from other people backing up large data sets on the (somewhat out of 
date) wiki page:

http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=database_statistics

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