> I am looking to provide a service similar to Carbonite for my business > clients. > > Before I spend the time to install and test I thought I would ask a > few questions first that I couldn't find on the net. > > How does it perform if the clients are on dsl? ~300k upload > Does it do delta thing like rsync? > Is the windows client intuitive for non techies? > Is the backup initiated from the client or the server? > Can client pause backup? > Will it work for many small business for one server install? > Would you suggest a different open source solution?
IIRC, Carbonite is a public service for backing up machines over the public Internet. I doubt that Bacula will work for you, as all of the scheduling and definition is done on the server end. If one of your clients add a drive to a machine, you'll have to change the backup definition. No, it's not a good idea to allow a client to do that. To provide security between clients, you'd need a separate Bacula cluster for each client. As John Drescher indicated in a separate note, getting Bacula directors and file daemons to communicate over firewalls is not necessarily a simple task. In short, I don't think Bacula is what you're looking for, considering that you'd like the client to be more than trivially involved. Jeff Kalchik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
