[ale] Opensource Enterprise Backups

[Jim Kinney]

Bacula is quite amazing. It's the only backup solution I use.

It's tedious to setup and the documentation is so detailed it can be
overwhelming.

Currently I use it with some LTO6 tape libraries. One has a single drive
and the other has dual.

I have small pool used for worm tapes for off site backup/archive. Manual
insertion plus a library scan, incremental backup of specific area to worm
pool will pull the worm tape. Release when done, export and store elsewhere.

Take the time to master the bacula bare-iron recovery of itself. Had to use
it once and it totally saved my bacon. Raid controller freaked and wrote
crap to drive array until the system crashed. Replaced controller (and
drives) and pulled out the panic disk. Booted it, ran the OS restore from
tape, rebooted, ran second restore for other stuff (very busy machine with
multiple partitions and functions -backups and samba), rebooted, back to
other things.

The bacula-web gives pretty pictures for PHB consumption.

The windows client works well. Not tried some of the other stuff.
On Jan 21, 2016 9:10 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at dsservices.com> wrote:

> Anyone using one of these like Bacula or Amanda that would care to comment
> on the following?
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> From what I saw yesterday it appears Bacula supports most of the things we
> do now with Netbackup such as Windows MSSQL, Hyper-V,  Oracle RMAN,  UNIX,
> Linux and Windows clients.   It also has plugins for Postgres and MySQL I
> think (NetBackup doesn’t have direct plugins for these like it does RMAN
> and MSSQL).
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> Can anyone comment on how well any of that works for them?
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> What is overall licensing costing you for the various plugins and for
> using shared tape library and deduplication appliances?
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> How you do vaulting (i.e. duplicating images to tape to be sent off site)?
>    I know about offsite replication for deduplication units but we aren’t
> doing that so please don’t suggest it.
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> Anything else you’d like to share on use of OpenSource backup products.
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> Note:
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> We will NOT be doing a setup wherein we just do tar or rsync or some other
> home brewed solution.   I’m asking about a full enterprise solutions for
> hundreds of physical servers and/or virtual guests.
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