Hello, I am interested in using bacula to backup several desktop systems (Windows XP and Snow Leopard). We have stopped using Retrospect because of its general unreliability and slow speed, and I am trying to determine if bacula will meet our needs.
With Retrospect, we backed up to hard drives and when a drive filled up, Retrospect would ask us to add a new drive to its "media set". We were then able to unmount and eject the old drive, then place it on a shelf in an anti-static bag. I have set up a system running Ubuntu, and it has four eSATA plugs. From what I have read so far, I believe that bacula is able to write the backups into files on a single hard drive, but I'm confused about what happens when the drive fills up. I do not want to use RAID or anything LVM-related, since that would prevent us from being able to take old volumes offline. Is there a way to make bacula work in a similar way to how Retrospect did (minus the unreliability and slowness:)? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Coleman Audio Engineer - Studio B Digital Domain www.digido.com (800) 344-4361 (407) 831-0233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
