I'm planning on giving bacula a try. While reading through the documentation, one item that I find confusing is that for Windows, both VSS and "ntbackup backup systemstate" are both described. Is "ntbackup backup systemstate" still recommended, or does VSS render it obsolete? Compare:
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION004270000000000000000 http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION0042140000000000000000 Also, how does one do multiple schedules while automatically keeping hosts in sync? In Amanda, setting up daily vs. monthly backups and keeping the host list in sync is syntactically easy -- set up two different config dirs, and symlink the hostlist from one into the other. So, when I add a host in to the dailies, it's also added in monthlies. I don't see an easy way to do this in bacula: seems like one would have to define two sets of clients, one referring to one schedule, one referring to the other. This seems accident-prone. Minor suggestion: the impression that I get from most of http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Windows_Version_Bacula.html#SECTION004250000000000000000 is that bacula has all kinds of compatibility problems. Only at the end of that section does it say "Note: with Bacula versions 1.39.x and later, non-portable Windows data can be restore to any machine." You might want to move that earlier. :) - Morty ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
