Rick Stevens wrote:
Does anyone have any advice on commercial or open source enterprise
level backup software. It would need the following:
1. Open file support
2. Backup to disk
3. Tape rotation
4. 'snapshotting' would be nice but not essential
5. A decent remote GUI (preferably web based)
bacula is excellent at this. We use it. We've also used Amanda and
it (she?) works pretty well. A bit clunkier to interface to, but works.
I use Amanda at home on a 4-tape DLT library.
Bacula is probably a more complete system, but also look at backuppc if
you mainly want online backups because its compression and pooling
scheme will let you hold about 10x what you'd expect in a given amount
of disk space. You can archive copies onto tape but it is a somewhat
manual operation. I still run amanda for tape rotations since it is
mostly automatic but haven't had to restore from tape in years and hope
I never have to again. Backuppc doesn't include open file support but
it can do pre/post backup commands and mail list users have reported
success at using those with win2003 server to create snapshots that can
be backed up completely.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
