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Date:      Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:16:50 -0700
From:      perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup Server with Freebsd 5.4. Help.
Message-ID:  <51d7a516050723141649248bd3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f42935a6050723061626d3763a@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/23/05, Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/05, perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/22/05, lars <lars@gmx.at> wrote:
> > > perikillo wrote:
> > > >   Hi people.
> > > >
> > > >      I like to hear some experienced about this situation and see i=
f
> > > > is possible:
> > > >
> > > >    We have in the company i work, one backup system running Windows=
 NT
> > > > 4 with some Seagate Backup Exec 7.8 over one SCSI system HP SuResto=
re
> > > > Ultrium 230, this system has working good for some years, but next
> > > > week we are going to receive one new Dell server running win server
> > > > 2k3, this will be our PDC, and we need to get rid of Windows NT sys=
tem
> > > > backup, and i want to install the backup system with Freebsd 5.3 or
> > > > 5.4 and bacula or another backup system that you now is working wit=
h
> > > > my HP device.
> > > >
> > > >    Them, i can use Freebsd 5.3 or 5.4 with my HP device with bacula=
 or
> > > > other software to
> > > > backup files on my windows domain? The PDC is going to run win 2k3
> > > > here is going to be the files we want to backup.
> > > Did you check www.bacula.org whether your tape drive is supported by
> > > Bacula? Or how to setup Bacula on MS Windows?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >    Yes, is supported, but the OS dosent appear, this way i want to
> > knows if someone has this tape drive working with freebsd 5.3 or 5.4.
> >
> >    About setup bacula under Redmond software, i dont want pay more
> > license only to use it like backup system, this why i want to use
> > freeebsd, to use one simply hardware and backup my windows files for
> > windows 2003.
> >
> >    Some has this configuration?
> >
>=20
> I have always like the bacula software. I have not used it in about a
> year though. This was on a w2k AD domain. The problem only I had using
> it, was the MS agent. It had issues backing up MS systems files. I
> just cron'd MSbackup to backup the system state to a SMB mount, and
> used the agent for everything else. Also you will have to run the
> agent as administrator or an account with-in the administrators group.
>=20
> If your HP device will work the app "mt" it should work with bacula.
> Sometimes it will require a bit of hacking.
>=20

   Thanks for the tip Hornet, it seens that is possible to setup this,
i will start next week this work and if i have problems i will can
back here or if everething goes perfect i will inform you guys.

   Thanks all for your comments, grettings.



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