[CentOS] Help with backups
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 16:41:06 UTC 2007
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Monday, August 20, 2007 11:11 AM -0500 Les Mikesell
> <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, unfortunately you have to choose between being able to keep much
>> more history online with no need to install a client agent and being able
>> to save windows metadata. Bacula also has better integration for tape
>> archiving. Backuppc can write to tapes but it is sort of an
>> afterthought.
>
> Yes, I'm looking at having to use Bacula for my Windows servers for
> their metadata but I'd sure like to have BackupPC's ability to store
> single copies of common files from multiple clients.
Some people on the backuppc mail list have mentioned using ntbackup to
dump system state and some critical files to a local disk file that is
picked up by the backuppc run and living with the client's-eye view of
the rest.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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