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

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 7:10 PM Walt Mankowski via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

When I said bacula was associated with bare metal, it wasn't because
it is simple - it isn't.  Rather, the sort of file-level scanning with
a locally installed client that it does makes more sense with bare
metal servers.  If you're running a million k8s containers odds are
that the configuration is in a database + scm which are better backed
up with the right tools, and the data is stored on some kind of
storage solution that also has its own backup solution.  If I'm going
to back up a container I'd just snapshot its data store and then
serialize that using the appropriate tools.

Of course, there is no reason you couldn't use bacula for this, but it
just isn't the ideal approach.

-- 
Rich
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