> I confess my first reaction is that any time your answer involves two > different backup systems working in series, you probably asked the wrong > question in the first place. If you're just copying all this data to > tape for an offsite archive copy (which, one presumes, you're going to > date and periodically rotate), why don't you just dump it with, say, > cpio/afio?
There are few reasons for our current configuration: 1. BackupPC has a web GUI that allows you to quickly restore files that were accidentally deleted. 99% of the time this is all that is required. For example, a user might have accidentally deleted a directory that they need. With BackupPC I can restore the files, or even give the end-user the ability to do this themselves. 2. BackupPC does compression and file pooling. If we were to try and backup these same systems without compression and pooling we would need over 8 terabytes of disk space. Our current system uses only 1.2 terabytes. 3. BackupPC is not well suited to tape backups. Hence the decision to augment our current system with bacula. Another BackupPC user I contacted suggested that we unmount the entire partition and do a block-level backup. Would this be possible with bacula? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
