Thanks to all for all the input.<br><br>The bottom line appears to be:<br>Bacula - do I also need to install on the windoze machines?<br>Needs SQL server also?<br>Bacula got a GOOD write up in LINUX Format over a year ago: 9/10. Is SSL now incorporated?<br><br>Ubuntu server with RAID 2(?)<br>Apache, (My)SQL, PHP ... resources, resources.<br><br>TYA, Peter H.<br><br>===> On 8 Oct 2006 at 22:10, Richard Mortimer wrote :-<br><br>> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 13:22 +0100, Peter Holmes wrote:<br>> > Need some input here. I have five PCs running both that-other-OS(?)<br>> > and LINUX.<br>> > Lately I have become concerned about data security.<br>> > I have acquired a 2.4GHz Intel box with two 250GB HDDs and run it for<br>> > a couple of months checking hardware is OK. It is intended as the<br>> > network backup machine.<br>> > <br>> > Which backup software do you recommend? I did some digging and
AMANDA<br>> > seems to be about the best though do I want to spend a week setting it<br>> > up? I also have some minor concerns about AMANDA's long term<br>> > free-as-in-beer situation ... note the number of ads seen around the<br>> > net on 'about.com', etc.<br>> > There's also AFBACKUP, BACULA and MONDO plus a few more but support<br>> > appears thin.<br>> > <br>> Bacula is the way to go! I've been using it for a few years and it works<br>> great. The file daemon works on Linux, *nix and winslows. Indeed in the<br>> latest beta version the whole lot works on winslows (not that I'd be<br>> recommending it here).<br>> <br>> Bacula will backup to tape, file (plus DVD support pretty much works in<br>> Beta - I've been supplying lots of fixes to that in the past couple of<br>> months).<br>> <br>> The online manual is great and gives you pretty much all of the<br>> information that you need to
configure it.<br>> <br>> Regards<br>> <br>> Richard<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk><br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Nelug mailing list - Nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nelug<br>> http://www.nelug.org.uk/<br>> <br><br><BR><BR><font face="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial"><pre><font face="Verdana, Arial"><br></font></pre></font><p> 
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