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Subject: Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...
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Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. 
> 
> What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just want to make backups on disk but later using an external tape drive.
> 
> Some swear by Amanda, others insist Bacula works best with Samba, just curious is all.

Well, I'm using bacula with the following config:

a) 1 Windows client (only some data to backup);
b) 1 FreeBSD client/storage (I just backup /etc, /usr/local/etc, ... and 
it holds daily backup on a disk);
c) 1 FreeBSD client/storage (main big chunk of data to save and tape 
drive used monthly for full backups).

Initially it was not that easy to setup, but I must admin it's working 
very well now.
I haven't by now even considered the bare metal restore option.

  bye
	av.