On 04/25/2014 09:57 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 04/25/14 10:44, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >> On 4/25/2014 8:49 AM, compdoc wrote: >> >>> However, I think without open source Windows clients people won't take the >>> considerable time it takes to learn how to install Bacula, and they will >>> turn to other solutions. >> >> Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken and the >> rest of them are just as bad as bacula only more expensive. So they can >> turn to other solutions but it won't help. > > If you have Windows 7 Pro, Windows Backup is actually fairly usable as > an image-backup tool, though it's nearly worthless for file-level > restore.
That, plus the part where it fails 80% of the time for no discernible reason(*) is what I mean by broken. As for bare metal backup/recovery, there are faster and easier ways. * Official microshaft kb answer is "well, try rebooting into safe mode and running it again and maybe the file it's complaining about won't be complained about then". -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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