Enterprise Backup

[Les Mikesell]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>>
>> Does anyone have any advice on commercial or open source enterprise
>> level backup software. It would need the following:
>>
>> 1. Open file support
>> 2. Backup to disk
>> 3. Tape rotation
>> 4. 'snapshotting' would be nice but not essential
>> 5. A decent remote GUI (preferably web based)
> 
> bacula is excellent at this.  We use it.  We've also used Amanda and
> it (she?) works pretty well.  A bit clunkier to interface to, but works.
> I use Amanda at home on a 4-tape DLT library.

Bacula is probably a more complete system, but also look at backuppc if 
   you mainly want online backups because its compression and pooling 
scheme will let you hold about 10x what you'd expect in a given amount 
of disk space.  You can archive copies onto tape but it is a somewhat 
manual operation.  I still run amanda for tape rotations since it is 
mostly automatic but haven't had to restore from tape in years and hope 
I never have to again.  Backuppc doesn't include open file support but 
it can do pre/post backup commands and mail list users have reported 
success at using those with win2003 server to create snapshots that can 
be backed up completely.

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   Les Mikesell
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