Re: [PLUG] Backing up Windows to Linux [bacula talk]

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 03:14:54PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> On 5/28/23 03:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > BTW, if there is general interest on bacula I could do a talk.  I've
> > been using it for a while.  It wouldn't be my first recommendation for
> > home-scale backup software as it is pretty complex and hard to
> > bootstrap.  However, if you need to manage backups for a large number
> > of systems, or especially if you want to back up to tape, then it is a
> > fairly robust solution.  It is definitely targeted more at bare-metal
> > servers.
> 
> I'm torn.  In general, what the heck, why not?  But I'm personally not that interested in bare-metal or tape these days, and I'm not sure who else is.

Well, I use rdiff-backup, which looks way more bare-metal than
bacula. There's not really much to talk about, though. Its "UI" is
basically like `scp` with a bunch more options.

Walt
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