This may get some chuckles, but I've had decent luck using Crashplan's free
client to back up some small offices with diverse systems to a linux
server.  You don't get snapshots over time, but if all you need is an
additional copy for backup, it's quite flexible and open to expansion
offsite for free, or with their seeding service to their datacenter.  In
the past I've thought it was too "simple" for a business server environment
(is that bad? :-) ), but it's always in the back of my mind as an option.


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinl...@madboa.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Skylar Thompson wrote:
>
>  On 05/12/2013 10:26 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote:
>>
>>>  On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Skylar Thompson
>>>  <skylar.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >  How do you define reliability?
>>>
>>
>   I think that that's a darned good question. Skylar's pair of
>>>  points misses a key definition. As a guy from Keane that I used to
>>>  work with said, no one cares about backups, they only care about
>>>  restores.
>>>
>>
> From the customer's perspective -- which for me is the only perspective
> that really counts -- restoration *is* the service; backup is just the tool
> that facilitates it.
>
> I've only had to do about one restoration per year over the eight years
> I've been at $WORK (small engineering-heavy company).
>
> Bacula (+ LTO) has never failed me during that time. I won't claim that
> it's any better than the other tools mention in the OP's list; my point is
> that I've found Bacula to be reliable. (I do agree with the person who
> lamented Bacula's oft-confusing interface and documentation.)
>
> If Bacula's catalog is hosted on traditional hard disks, it can take
> several minutes to build the dump-like interface to the filesystem to be
> restored. I still spool to HDs, but I've moved MySQL to SSDs, and it's much
> much much speedier now.
>
> I've deployed rdiff-backup at home, and on a much smaller scale, but I've
> never done anything but test restores with it.
>
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