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