The other nice thing about bacula is the help of the guys here. Without the help of Phil and several others, I would still be fighting to get back up.
Ron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Stracchino Sent: August 22, 2005 7:24 PM To: Alex Polvi Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Other testimonials? Alex Polvi wrote: > Greetings, > > We are looking at moving our backups over to bacula. I checked out the > testimonials on the main website, but those did not seem comparable to > our environment. Does anyone have experience using bacula with 100+ > clients (mainly Linux, but also a sprinkle of Mac OSX and Windows Server)? > Has it been proven to be able to complete daily backups with that many > hosts using disk or tapes? There is at least one user who has Bacula up and running with, if I recall correctly, over 2,300 clients and around 300 Directors. (He says the only reason that many Directors are required is his company's network configuration is bizarre.) > Also, we are leaning toward using spinning disks instead of tapes. We > have systems at a few different co-locations and do not have the man > power to administer tape-driven backups across our entire infrastructure. > Are there any advantages of bacula and tapes that might make us reconsider? Disk or tape is a question with no wrong answers. It's just "What are your needs, and which will serve them best?" -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
