Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> Backup is a serious issue. Allow me a bit or sarcasm... I know that most > Windows admins think that all the operating things that whole bookshelfs > deal with must be as easy as a mouse click. And Windows admins laugh about > long-bearded UNIX admins who spend half of their lives operating such > services. But those issues are not trivial at all. If you just backup > things for your personal use then copy the file somewhere else. First let me say I appreciate the response for its conversational tone but still full of info. I'm going to respond in kind but maybe a little more personal info in case it will help you know what I'm looking for and how I might approach it. Just for the record, almost my entire background is linux/unix. I did'nt know any more about computing than what I saw the girl at the unemployment office do to pull up my records, until I was 50, in 1995. I decided on my 50th birthday to learn about computers and started right out with linux since a friend of mine was a linux buff. But still, I'm really an illiterate hillbilly that didn't graduate from high school so you might say there are some `holes' in my education. Its all been by hook or by crook, no formal training at all, but with the help of many lists. I was a redhat person until fedora split off then I went with it, but finally grew tired of the update mess. usually a complete reinstall and took a liking to gentoo linux. I've experimented with free/open bsd, sco before it was slurped up and x86 solaris. So I have ten yrs of linux/unix experience and only a little windows experience since I like to play with Photos and edit video, and it seems the most advanced tools are available for windows or mac. I can write semi complicated shell scripts and ditto for perl. Far as database goes I know less than zip. > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . But > backups save your job and sometimes important parts of your life. Most > people don't think about backups before the photos of their kids have just > gone into nirvana and they virtually lost parts of their lives. It's good > that you think about backups. But they *are* tricky sometimes. At least > they require some reading and understanding. But be assured that you will > not regret spending some hours on a decent backup when your hard disk > dies. You should have seen me sitting at my 19" rack when I really > depended on my backup, crossed my finger and begged Bacula to work. Yes, > it did. :) I've got to the point where I personally run 1 linux main desktop, an openbsd firewall, and 3 windows boxes, and a linux dual booter laptop, then I have my wifes machine and her files to consider, and finally my daughters laptop. So a real backup system to cover that on my home network would be in order. Besides my linux setup, I mostly have Photos and videos to safeguard. Mostly work in progress so a backup could save lots of rework if something goes wrong. I've been rsync/rsnapshotting, and ghosting at times, I've even imployed `rar' to create spit dvd backups but mostly I've let stuff go unprotected, especially my wifes files since she is really a light user. Probably high time I got a sophisticated backup system in place. So I guess I'll quite sniveling and dig in. Incidently, I've now gotten pretty far with my testing and sandboxing with bacula, I'm running jobs from the bconsole, creating volumes, making quite a mess but in generall learning quite a lot as I go. One thing I'd like to try is running a specific backup setup on request that backs up a specific directory every minute. Its not really clear to me yet what happens to different versions of files in bacula, are the backups generally a mirror of what is on the file system or can on go back thru different versions like with rsnapshot? Also I'm wondering if it is best to let bacula write to one volume (in my case `file') for all the stuff on one client, of if it makes sense to write to different volumes. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
