Backup soution to another server

[Jeff Vian]

Michael Mansour wrote:

>Hi,
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>>>I'm looking for an Opensource solution which can
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>>allow
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>>>me to backup various servers I have to another
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>>server
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>>>(the others servers disks) while allowing me to
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>>store
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>>>full and incremental backups, browse the files
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>>that
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>>>were backed up etc.
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>>>Basically, a normal tape backup system but without
>>>tapes while keeping the backed up files on the
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>>other
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>>>servers disks in a highly compressed format.
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>>>Anyone know of anything like this out there?
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>>>Thanks.
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>>>Michael.
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>>http://www.bacula.org/
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>Thanks for this, I'm surprised this product is so
>powerful. But reading the web pages and features
>document, I couldn't ascertain whether it does backups
>to the servers actual disks, it makes plenty of
>references to Tape drives and Tape loaders (which I
>don't want) but nothing to clearly say "bacula will
>backup data *to* a servers disks".
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>Can you please confirm it dos do this.
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>Thankyou.
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>Michael.
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In the documentation, under the section about 'running bacula', it says 
it is configured by default to do the test to the hard drive.  I would 
thus assume it can do full backups the same way with proper configuration.


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