[ale] seeking backup with versioning

[PairOfTwins]

Jim:

I'll give Bacula a closer look.  Somewhere in the Linux magazine stash 
is an article about it, too.

Tom
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Jim Kinney wrote:
> bacula is very robust and capable of enterprise class backups.
> Depending on how the backups are configured you would have multiple
> restore options for the next failure. The docs with bacula are
> outstanding (hundreds of well written pages in a PDF format).
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, PairOfTwins <PairOfTwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> All:
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>> In searching ale.org, I see ext4 in discussions of versioning.  I've
>> been asked (finally) to replace a Win2K server, which houses the
>> database for 7 Windoze workstations.  Since the office manager just lost
>> 6 weeks of Outlook emails when the pst file was corrupted AND the copy
>> done by nightly backup was also corrupted ---- keeping prior versions is
>> a basic requirement.
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>> eBox uses rdiff-backup
>> ClearOS I can't determine
>> FreeNAS I can't determine
>> Ubuntu Server uses BackupPC or Bacula
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>> As an Ubuntu user, I'm most comfortable with deb distros.  Anyone have a
>> suggestion of a server distro with suitable backup built in, or shall I
>> use Ubuntu server?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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