Hello,
On 1/4/2006 2:48 PM, John Kodis wrote:
Someone asked me what types of installations are using Bacula as their
main backup system. I didn't know of any such experience reports,
Hmm. Perhaps some people with interesting installations might be
reminded to send a small report for the bacula.org web site by your
question?!
and
so I thought I'd describe the installation where I'm using Bacula, and
see what other types of setups are in use. Here goes...
Well,if you think it's interesting...
my own installation consists of two old autoloaders (DLT and DDS based)
and one single QIC drive. (Now that I think about it, I've got one more
tape drive and a DVD writer on a second SD, but don't usually use them.)
I back up a small number of servers and workstations (linux and windows,
respectively) for... hmm... at least more than a year because I already
cycled my Full backup volumes. Something like 18 months, I guess. I'm
storing about 1.5 TB.
One main purpose of my rather complicated setup is to stress-test Bacula
here - I always have my setup here more complicated than what I install
at customer's sites.
Most installations I know about are rather straight-forward - after all,
a backup should be as simple as possible. Typically, it's only the
amount of data that determines how many drives and which tape technology
people chose - apart from that, I never saw anything more complex than a
handfull of pools and a single DIR with a single SD in one installation.
The
only problems that I've encountered have all been of the "climbing the
learning curve" variety, and I hope that those days are behind me.
Definitely there is a learning curve, but usually, once you managed
that, you get what you want. More than you can say about some commercial
backup solutions.
We're currently considering expanding to another similar installation,
and moving our Mac and MS backups over to Bacula.
No problems expected... although I'm not sure about MacOS currenly. I
think I recall reading that HFS and UFS are completely supported, i.e.
resource forks and all sorts of stuff get saved and restored correctly.
If that's important for you that's something to verify. Windows works
great, especially since VSS support is included in bacula-fd.exe. Saves
you lots of time setting up your filesets and scripts to run on your
clients.
Arno
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