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)? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University