On Tuesday 28 June 2005 22:34, Richard White wrote: > > Apart from Phils suggestion, which is what I would do too, you could > > also see if what Novell calls Netware is already available with an > > underlying linux... that's what they want to achieve finally, but I > > don't know if they are there already. > > Most of the features, functions and services which have run on NetWare will > now run on Linux. Of course, Novell gives most support to SuSE, but they > also claim to support RH. > > We are presently migrating some of our NetWare servers to Linux. We have > already migrated a W2K server that way. > > I suppose my boss wanted me to post this question so that, in the event we > are totally satisfied and awed by Bacula, we may move to it as our only > backup solution. > > This whole exercise came about because our Backup Exec for NetWare would > see this ex-W2K-now-SuSE Linux server, except for the directories we > particularly wanted to back up. These directories are distinguished only in > that they are shared out with Samba. Our support period with Veritas has > expired, and I got no solutions to this problem by googling, so we decided > to try Bacula. > > The bad news is that I am rather new to Linux. I have learned a great deal > in the last year or so, but I have a lot more to learn before I hang out my > shingle. > > The good news is that Bacula is now backing up those directories and I > understand a good deal more about Bacula than I did at first. As I said in > another post, much of my floundering around has been due to the differences > in concepts and philosiphies between Bacula and BE. I supported ArcServe > for a while a few years ago * an experience I would like to forget * and I > installed Arkeia on this SuSE box before trying Bacula.
I would be interested to hear a bit of detail about the differences in concepts and philosphies between Bacula and BE if you have the time. The details of what BE does are not important, but if you find that they do something better, I would like to know what it is and why you think they do it better. The idea is to help us improve Bacula. > So far, so good. Today we are working on getting wxWidgets working so we > can have a graphical front end. I am (so far) happy with bconsole, but my > boss wants a gui so that if I bite the big one, someone else can quickly > take over managing backups. > > Tks n rgds, > Richard White CNE6 > Network Engineer > Mason County, Washington > 360-427-5501 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&opÌk > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
