[CentOS] Bacula

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Aug 2 16:08:02 UTC 2005


On 8/2/05 8:56 AM, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> I'm also looking (well, planning to look) into Bacula as an alternative to
> Amanda.  Couple of questions.
> 
> Can I have my backups go to the disk, instead of using tapes?  Can I 
> have some on disk, and some on tapes?  On-site disk, off-site tapes 
 > combination?

Yes to all of the above.

> Another question is about restores.  How easy/automated are they?

If you've ever used the restore(8) shell, then you'll feel right at 
home. Essentially, you get a command-line view of the backed up file 
system. You can navigate with cd, ls, find, etc. You choose the files 
and/or directory trees to restore, specify where they should be 
restored, make sure the correct tapes are accessible, and voila!

If you've got multiple copies of a file, you can choose which version 
you want restored.

> The ability to tell backup system "I want server.mycorp.com's 
> /etc/foobar.conf from two months ago restored" and then simply 
 > sit back and relax while backup server is doing all the job
 > automatically in the background is priceless.  Is
> Bacula able to do that?

Pretty much, though the trick is in the telling. I haven't investigated 
whether it's possible to script that sort of thing; I've only used the 
restore shell.

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