[CentOS] Bacula

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 at 11:50am, Bryan Cardillo wrote

> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:38:09AM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> > I'm a long time amanda user, so I may be a bit biased.  I looked into 
> > bacula a month or so ago for 2 reasons -- 1) tape spanning support (which 
> > amanda has only in experimental patches, and 2) native ACL support (amanda 
> > uses native tools like tar or dump to actually get the bits off the disk, 
> > so ACL support is up to them).  I decided against bacula pretty quickly, 
> > though, because the scheduling facilities of it are, well, non-existent.  
> > You have to make all the scheduling decisions yourself.
> 
>         I've also used amanda in the past, and looked into bacula
>         for the tape spanning support as well.  However, I was not
>         turned off by having to setup the schedules manually, and
>         have been using bacula for several months to backup ~15TB.
>         Aside from the tape spanning support (which I think is
>         maturing in amanda), I've found having the catalog in a true
>         database to be a great feature, particularly when a user
>         inevitably request files (the names of which they only
>         vaguely remember) be restored.

So, how do you set the schedule?  And when do your backups run (what's the 
window)?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University