[kwlug-disc] Open source backup tools

[Oksana Goertzen]

Not open source but If you are moving from BackupExec and can't find an FLOSS option, Veeam is awesome and will handle Exchange beautifully. 

-Oksana

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> I am heartily sick of Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec. I am looking
> shifty-eyed at Bacula/Barios and Amanda. There might be other backup
> solutions as well.
> 
> Unfortunately, my backup programs need to deal with proprietary
> software: 
> - Microsoft Exchange 2010!
> - Windows file shares!
> - Windows domain controllers!
> - Hyper-V virtual machines!
> 
> Bacula/Barios looks like it does not understand the concept of a
> registry, which sounds suspicious to me.
> 
> Obviously, the ability to support VSS is important. But there seem to
> be other intricacies to backing up these things that the software
> would need to handle as well.
> 
> I am backing up to big hard drives, not to tapes. 
> 
> So my questions: 
> 
> - Has anybody successfully used open-source backup tools to back up
>  horrible proprietary Windows stuff?
> - What works and what doesn't?
> 
> - Paul 
> 
> 
> 
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