Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

2011-12-04 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 12/05/2011 03:39 AM, Jesse Molina wrote: > > Hi > > Recently I was looking for new backup app for my small network. Here's > my story and why I decided that Bacula was not a good choice for me. > > I am not a long time user, so opinions and views may not be shared by > others, but they are

[Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

2011-12-04 Thread Jesse Molina
Hi Recently I was looking for new backup app for my small network. Here's my story and why I decided that Bacula was not a good choice for me. I am not a long time user, so opinions and views may not be shared by others, but they are true none the less. You can only be a noob once and I hop

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling question

2011-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Phil Stracchino schrieb: > I've just acquired an LTO4 drive, and am setting up spooling for the > first time. (The machine with the LTO4 drive attached has mirrored SSDs > and a 6GB/s SAS controller, so it's a great setup for spooling.) > There's one thing I'm not clear on: It appears to me that

Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?

2011-12-04 Thread Guy
Simple answer. YES Bacula has clients for windows and source code or binaries for Linux an Linux derived systems. You can either back up to tape or my preferred is to disk. I treat the backup disks as if they were tapes and maintain an on site backup and an off site one. I take the drives in

[Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?

2011-12-04 Thread jonathanb
Our intern has enough Linux knowledge to do this and he will be assisted by my colleague who knows a lot about unix systems. I'm trying to make an assignment which will benefit both of us. He will start by backing the clients and if all goes well we will take a look if Bacula can make backups to

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.2.2 patch submitted to FreeBSD

2011-12-04 Thread Silver Salonen
Thank you, Dan! --- Silver On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 18:15:46 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > The patch for Bacula 5.2.2 has been submitted to the FreeBSD ports > system. I expect you'll be able to upgrade early this coming week. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/163034 > > That will up