On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Devin Reade <gdr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> --On Friday, December 09, 2011 01:03:18 PM -0600 Les Mikesell
> <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'll be happy if I never see a tape again.
>
> Likewise.
>
> Skipping forward to the present, I'm doing normal backups in Bacula
> to virtual volumes on hard disk. As for offsite/archival backups, using
> the bacula add-on 'vchanger' and inexpensive high density SATA disks on
> an eSATA peripheral to act as a virtual tape autoloader magazine is
> both faster and less expensive than tape.
>
Bacula is probably better suited to mixing online/tape or fake-tape
for offsite, but you can't keep as much online as backuppc without
help from ZFS or similar block-level dedup. I doubt if it can match
the bandwidth efficiency of backuppc with rsync as the transport (not
sure - how does the bacula agent deal with growing files, or big files
with small changes?).
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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