On Thursday 03 November 2005 13:19, Steve Loughran wrote: > Hi all > > I am a long time Amanda user looking for something that spans tapes, and > can do decent win32 restores... so here I am :) > > While I await the arrival of my LTO3 tape library, I was wondering if I > could ask some really dumb questions about Bacula. > > - When the clients send their backups to the Storage Daemon, does it go > direct to tape, or spooled to disk (like Amanda does) and then writen to > tape from there?
Depends you can do both. I spool to disk first then to tape as this way tape is used properly. > - Best choice for newbie - Source tarball or RPM? (tape server running > Fedora Core 4 btw) Source tarball is better option. > - Which is the best option of bare metal restore for win32 boxes? There > are a few options mentioned, but they all tend to leave me with the > impression that there isnt a clear winner. Well never did that I always install a strip down OS then restore on that. > Many thanks for any help you can give to point me in the right > direction, it is greatly appreciated. > > Steve > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arunav Mandal - amandal at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, NO-0175 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 21 60 27 22, Fax: +47 21 60 48 02 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
