Hi, On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 21:26, Jun Salen <nokijun at yahoo.com> wrote: > Between Bacula and Backuppc, based on list users experience, which is better to use? I intend > to backup both Windows and Linux server. Can I use this to backup my linux mail server with > Zimbra services shutdown? Can I use this to backup windows server machine without using Samba > or it is the only way to go. I intend to read manual of these two when I got my machine to test, for a > while maybe I can get some insight from those who have already experience using these tools. You can do all that with both tools. Bacula is tape oriented, so if you're backing up to tape it's going to be the tool for you. It also supports backing up to disk, but it backs up to disk as if it was a tape (a set of tapes, actually) which is kind of awkward. In my opinion, Bacula's user interface is kind of weird too. Backuppc backs up to disk only, but it has a great advantage that it finds duplicate files and uses hardlinks to reduce storage usage, so it can usually back up much more data than Bacula in the same space. Another advantage of Backuppc is that it backs up using rsync or tar over ssh or smbtar for Windows, so in general you don't need to install an agent on the client machines. It's web interface is also very good. So, you should choose mainly based on the media you're using for backups. IMHO, if you still use tapes, forget the past and move to the future of disk-based backups, and adopt Backuppc as your tool. HTH, Filipe