On 12/06/2007 19:06 PM, "Ware Adams" <email@hidden> wrote:
The BRU software looks quite OK for me
We use Bru with an Exabyte LTO3 library and it works fine in backing
up other servers. You don't mention what you are backing up, but
currently it wouldn't work as well in a lot of laptop scenarios. It
wants a schedule for when to run a backup. If the machine isn't
available then you've missed it until the next schedule. There's no
concept of backing up on a schedule or the next time you see it
available after the scheduled time.
Laptop backups are really the single biggest reason I still use
Retrospect.
The backup server functionality, with the server polling the
clients, and
being able to only do one "full" backup in a year's worth of
backups, along
with the selectors, works astoundingly elegantly. I learned long ago
that
backup programs are RTFM situations, no exceptions, and so I pay
attention
to the approved hardware list, device firmware, etc, and so it ends
up that
the only attention I pay to Retrospect is a once a week check to see
if I
need to do a tape swap in the library.
Retrospect has real issues, but to date, I've not found a product
for the
same cost that offers the same kind of approach towards laptop
backups.
Until I do, I'll stick with Retrospect.
