[ale] Looking for backup solution.

[James P. Kinney III]

This sounds a config issue with bacula. I have several bacula servers
running and they have been up with little to no maintenance for 8 months
for one and 6 months for another and 1+ years for mine.

> I tried bacula because it had everything I needed, however I couldn't
> get it to work the first time and then when I tried later it seemed to
> work after screwing with it too long.  Now all of a sudden it started
> failing.
>
> So I'm going to trash it and try something else.
>
> What I liked about bacula were the following features.
>
> * it does either full backups or incremental ones.
> * it allows me to include/exclude directories/files.
> * it runs from a single machine and dumps files from multiple systems,
> including Windows
>
> Rsync does the second, but unless you write some sort of script to
> schedule the target in different places, it  won't solve the first and
> as far as I know it doesn't do the third for windows.  I know you can
> run rsync on windows, but you can't schedule it from Linux unless you
> install some sort of ssh server on the windows box.  I'd rather have a
> complete package that runs everwhere if possible.
>
> I'm dumping to a dedicated 200 Gb drive on one of my Linux boxes.  I
> dont have a tape drive.
>
> Dump is pretty quick, but it doesn't let me exclude the crap I really
> don't want to be bothered with among other limitations.
>
> So does anyone know of any reasonable solutions? Something that'll last
> more than a couple of months?  (bacula)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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