[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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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