[PLUG] Backup software

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, David Bridges wrote:

> I use bacula on hundreds of linux systems and it works like a charm but it
> is more of a backup server solution instead of a single computer backup
> solution. It can be used for bare metal restores with some configuration.

> Normally bacula is ran on a server along with a mysql or postgresql
> database and each compuer to be backed up has a client installed.  The
> backups are kicked off by the server not via cron
>
> I do use bacula here at home but I wouldn't say I really need it for my
> simple home network.

David,

That's valuable information. While I do run postgres (currently 11.5) I've
stored the dirvish incremental backups on a 500G external hard drive.
There's one desktop (but when this new one replaces the old one) I'll add a
reserve desktop which will be kept current but not used daily. The laptops
are off and backed up by rsync to the desktop as necessary.

Guess I'll look at something for SOHO needs rather than enterprise networks.

Thanks very much,

Rich