Again, thanks so much for the input folks. This gives me full confidence to
face the auditors and say "Bacula maybe free but is on a par with the
proprietary enterprise backup solutions".
Cheers,
Win
On Nov 30, 2007 12:38 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just want to stress a point that John mentioned - the catalog data for
> a
> > given volume is never absolutely *required* to recover data from a
> volume. It
> > is just a huge convenience factor. When the worst case scenario
> happens,
> > though, and all you have to rebuild your infrastructure is a box full of
> tapes
> > and a corporate credit card, Bacula will let you get all of your data
> back
> > with a combination of bls, bextract, and bscan. It may be slower, but
> it'll work.
> >
> Good point and this is a very good feature of bacula being that with
> these tools you should be able to extract data from earlier versions
> of bacula without the need of a database or to install the whole
> bacula package. This is one big reason why the tape format has
> remained constant for a long time (since bacula 1.27).
>
> John
>
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