[Gllug] Anybody with experience of Bacula

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Mon Jan 24 15:25:00 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:30 +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > Never used Bacula, but I'd be curious what limitations you're hitting
> > with Amanda.
> 
> The biggest one is the no-partitions-bigger-than-a-tape constraint, 
> which is a right bugger with todays huge drives.

Yeah, that's annoying, I'll grant. You can get around it  actually, but
you have to use tar as your backup program, which is admittedly a pain.
Tape drives are also getting bigger though, but I'll agree they're not
really keeping pace with disks.

Mike.

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