On the windows machines, how do you deal with locked files?  Are you
backing up the system state or just home directories?

Jeff Rasmussen


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:31:17 -0500 (CDT), Eric Peterson
<eric at lgthouse.com> wrote:
> Chad Walstrom wrote:
> > Another one to look at is bacula (http://www.bacula.org).  You need a
> > RDBMS database installed, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.  It has some nice
> > graphical and command-line utilities and clients for Windows and Mac OS
> > X.  Worth a look if you need to backup many machines.
> 
> I second bacula.  I've been using it for around 6 months and it has worked
> very well for tapeless backups.  It was easy to setup, it has nice tools
> to work with, and I've had no problems as of yet.  I also like the fact
> that you can customize the way it names your backup files.  Makes it
> easier to verify what was done when.
> 
> If you're curious, I'm backing up around 15 windows desktops and one SuSE
> server which is 15 more machines than you need, but you get the picture...
> it works!
> 
> You can also setup external path files that the director reads when
> iniating a job so that you can add files to be backed up on the fly by
> adding them to the path file. No need to restart the daemon to add files
> to a particular backup.  Not sure if Amanda does this?
> 
> Also, it works well with Windows and Linux.  It's very cool IMHO that
> they're using the WxWidgets for their client GUIs.  I love when software
> works well and looks good across multiple OS.
> 
> Sorry for the long reply, but I had to give bacula a good plug.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> 
> 
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