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)?