[Advice needed] Small Office Backup Solution

[Hakan Koseoglu]

J said the following on 12/05/10 09:44:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 23:57, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>>> I a looking for a backup solution with the following requirements:
>>>
>>> * Linux based Server
>>> * Simple to set up and deploy
>>> * Cross Platform: A windows client (preferably  hidden service style)
>>> * A way for the management to monitor the backups without accessing the
>>> Linux Server directly.
>>> * Incremental / Delta support.
>>> * CLI interface for me to be able to manage remotely over ssh
>>> * No Tape support needed - most of them use an external USB hard drive
>>>
>>> I'll appreciate any recommendations for suitable external hard drives (like
>>> the WD Passport series?)
>> Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/ and http://www.bacula.org/
> 
> FWIW, I never had any luck in getting bacula to actually work.  It
> took me forever to even get it compiled on RHEL when I was evaluating
> backup solutions.  I'd suggest Amanda over bacula any day of the week.
Interesting, my experience was the other way around (with Ubuntu 6.06 in a
big way and 8.04 at home). Now the pixies ate my tape drive and goblins
gobbled up the tapes and gremlins are creating bad sectors on my backup disk
meaning I don't do managed backups anymore but Bacula should cover all of
the OP's requests.

Bacula had a rather complex setup to start with and once I got used to the
terminology and what it was doing, it was rather easy going.

Cheers,
Hakan