<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>I use bacula to pull data from windows and Linux machines onto lto3 with an hp tape drive. </div><div><br></div><div>The job storage/management is all done in Postgres via bconsole, the admin interface. It's written in Python. Initially, used a MySQL database and I switched over with a simple script provided by bacula. Other engines are probably supported too. </div><div><br></div><div>I've restored from these data sets more than once. While slow, due to not specifying exactly which files to restore, the task was effortless and worked perfectly. </div><div><br></div><div>Bacula might offer the widest array of storage media compatibility. I've used plain disks, DVD, quantum travan, and the LTO3 media I'm using now. </div><div><br></div><div>There is still no easy way around the Microsoft live/open file backup. I just do a little didy with dos, but a more elaborate solution could be easily achieved. </div><div><br></div><div>It's free, stable and a great backup tool for the folks who vim they're way through life. </div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">-j</span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;">--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Right to Life of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Director of Information Services<br><a href="tel:616.446.6492" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">616.446.6492</a> / <a href="mailto:jdenick@rtl.org">jdenick@rtl.org</a></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><br>On Aug 23, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Christopher House <<a href="mailto:chouse@gmail.com">chouse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Crashplan is free for backing up "to a friend", I assume the connection stays within the network if the "friend" is a local server.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 11:32 AM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Ben Rousch wrote:<br>
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> Have you looked at CrashPlan? <a href="http://www.code42.com/crashplan/" target="_blank">http://www.code42.com/crashplan/</a><br>
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</div>Would prefer not to use a commercial product, .. if we went that way,<br>
StoreGrid/Vembu would be a more flexible choice.<br>
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Lee<br>
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