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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:48:26 +0100 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > Quoting Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > Hi all, > > > > Interested in a network backup solution with Windows (SBS2008) as a > > client machine. Have looked into Bacula and it seems OK to me. > > What are your opinions on it? Any horror stories? Etc, etc. > > > > Cheers. > > Grant. :) > > I've used it in the past and for backing up to tapes etc it rocks > although it can be a bit complicated owing to the master/slave/file > daemon situation. > > If you want to backup to disk and you can use SMB/CIFS or rsync, > then I'd check out backupPc. Don't let the title fool you, it works > incredibly well for servers and gives you a really nice web-gui to > restore from. > > BackupPC also allows you to restore back to the original machine, to > another machine on the network, to another path on the original > machine or download as a file or zip/tgz. In short, it rocks. > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > M. BackupPC looks like it might do the trick. Bacula looks nice, but perhaps a little overkill for our needs... and I don't anticipate our future growth requiring such a system. Cheers Matthew. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html