[ale] Looking for backup solution.

[Jim]

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I started to implement an rvm solution 
but the documentation left me with a lot of questions.  I decided to go 
back to bacula to see if I could figure it out one more time.  What 
finally worked was running bacula-sd as root.  For some strange reason 
running as bacula/tape quit working even though the disk volume that I 
was writing to was owned by bacula/tape.  I even set the directory 
permissions to 777 but no way would the sd write to it.  I suspect I 
shouldn't be running sd as root, but it works and I'm happy with it.

I thought I'd document the problem so someone else might find the 
solution in the future.

Thanks again,
Jim.

Jim wrote:
> I tried bacula because it had everything I needed, however I couldn't 
> get it to work the first time and then when I tried later it seemed to 
> work after screwing with it too long.  Now all of a sudden it started 
> failing. 
>
> So I'm going to trash it and try something else. 
>
> What I liked about bacula were the following features.
>
> * it does either full backups or incremental ones.
> * it allows me to include/exclude directories/files.
> * it runs from a single machine and dumps files from multiple systems, 
> including Windows
>
> Rsync does the second, but unless you write some sort of script to 
> schedule the target in different places, it  won't solve the first and 
> as far as I know it doesn't do the third for windows.  I know you can 
> run rsync on windows, but you can't schedule it from Linux unless you 
> install some sort of ssh server on the windows box.  I'd rather have a 
> complete package that runs everwhere if possible.
>
> I'm dumping to a dedicated 200 Gb drive on one of my Linux boxes.  I 
> dont have a tape drive.
>  
> Dump is pretty quick, but it doesn't let me exclude the crap I really 
> don't want to be bothered with among other limitations.
>
> So does anyone know of any reasonable solutions? Something that'll last 
> more than a couple of months?  (bacula)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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