On Tue, July 14, 2015 12:49 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 07/14/2015 07:17 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
My manager just tasked me at looking at this, for one team we're supporting. Now, he'd been thinking of bacula, but I see their Windows binaries are now not-free, so I'm looking around. IIRC, Les thinks highly of backuppc; comments on that, or other packaged solutions?
I would strongly recommend a product that supports VSS. Bacula does, and Veeam does as far as I can tell (mentioned by Tom). BackupPC does not. Without snapshots (VSS), you may back up inconsistent data, and you'll miss backups of open files.
I use bacula to backup windows boxes. I do create full box image backup (using Windows image backup tool) every other year or so. As far as user data are concerned I rely on bacula (had to restore something they accidentally deleted or modified a couple of times - successfully). We don't have many Windows boxes though, - about a dozen. We are mostly Linux, FreeBSD and Macintosh shop.
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++