Hello all, I've been having some trouble lately with the newer versions of Amanda - we had been running it for about five years and on the last upgrade we've found that it's not quite as robust as it used to be (at least in our environment). When we originally settled on Amanda I did look at Bacula but the project was too young for us to consider. It appears now that it is much more mature and going in a good direction, so we'll be giving it a shot.
I've got a somewhat short list of questions... -I'm still digging through the docs, but it appears that scheduling is one of the main differences between amanda and bacula. Amanda tries to spread full dumps out over time, but it appears bacula leaves this up to the operator. Is that correct? -Are there any issues running the current stable release on FreeBSD 4.11? We do need to upgrade to 6.2 and are doing it slowly, but for the time being we're stuck running 4.11 on the majority of our hosts. -Amanda calls gtar or dump on the clients. Does bacula use an external program like this or does the client daemon directly access files? I'm also unclear on the "differential" backup scheme - in amanda I only have full or incremental... -For now I'll be using the SQLite backend. Is it simple to move to PostgreSQL at a later time? Lastly, anyone here who has already made the switch, I'd love to hear about how that went and what prompted you to switch. You'll probably here more from me over the next week as I try to get this up and running and taking over our archival backups... Thanks, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
