On Apr 27, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Jayson Broughton wrote: > As far as solving the laptop solution, I have been playing around > in the bacula installation/configuration guide on JobDefs (setting > global job definitions for clients). In this case I am trying out:
Thanks for the thoughts! I just don't know that Bacula will quite fit here, because we have travelers on a regular basis overseas, it's not uncommon for some of them to not be in the office for a week or two, back in for a day or part of a day, and then back out again. But it's entirely possible that a set of jobs set up in Bacula with the right retry parameters would be at least as effective as BackupPC for these cases, so I'm not dismissing it. I think that the big reason I'm leaning that way is because of the user interface for restores more than anything. Being mostly Mac OS X laptops, I am just backing up their user folders, and excluding anything inside their like browser cache, IMAP cached copies, iTunes files, movies, iPhoto databases etc... This makes it go pretty smooth, especially because BackupPC uses rsync to handle the "only new/changed" file backup as well. However, given the right Bacula setup, especially using the Virtual Backup to consolidate so you could set the accurate backups flag and pretty much only ever do incrementals / differentials, and always roll them back up to a complete backup, it would probably be superior and the only advantage of BackupPC would be the web GUI for users. Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
