On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:59:03PM +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: Hi Michel,
Thanks for your insight. A couple of comments: > >2) I'm concerned that incremental and differential backups don't notice > >deleted files. When we restore from that, we could wind up with > >thousands of deleted or renamed files -- *not* an exact image of the > >system as of the last backup. That also is a large problem. > > That is correct. This feature is being worked on but for now, Bacula > restores ALL files, including deleted and renamed ones. Do you (or others) have some feedback on how bad this behavior is in practice? My gut says that it could be pretty bad, but I haven't yet come up with any particularly bad examples. > >Bacula has the ability to spool data to disk, but it doesn't appear to > >be able to do that in a nice fashion in the presence of a tape error. > >Correct? > > As far as I know, Bacula will continue to spool to disk, but the backup > will not end until everything has been flushed to tape (and the catalog). That would be perfect. Can anyone confirm this is the case? > That is an incorrect assumption. I've read testimonials of people > backing up multiple TBs with Bacula on the list here. Of course, most > large organizations will rather pay for commercial software (read Data > Protector, Netbackup or TSM) than try open source software, but in We would rather use Open Source software, simply because it is Open Source and we can fix it ourselves if we have to. In fact, I'm a little nervous about moving away from something that I could recover from with just dd and tar in a pinch, but hopefully a static bextract should allay those fears. Thank you for the links and information. -- John ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
