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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list