Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL and Motion

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bacula supports all kinds of storage media.
I'm using it to back up onto a hard drive.

Heiko

Quoting jazz <jaz...@gm...>:

> I have looked at bacula a few months ago,also on the website and they all
> talk about tape drives
> Tapes are quite useless here in vietnam, as molds loves tapes(and
> floppies)and even cd's because of the high humidity
> the only solution is a hdd (but not an usb hdd as those regularly hang
> resulting in empty files( directory is updated with right filesize, but
> inside the file is only crap))
> the 4 sata on my mb are in use for the raid 1, (2 spare now but soon have
> to add 2 more hd) and ide drives are not available in shops anymore
> its a real dilemma to get the fileserver backed up.I have no real solution
> now.
>
> best regards
> gudy
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:58:36 +0700, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Quoting jazz <jaz...@gm...>:
>>> I must say that i'm very happy with my dl server as it works very well,
>>> no
>>> downtime, no reboot in months
>>
>> :)
>>
>>> the raid 1 has saved my day a few times already.i used 2 new hd , 1 of
>>> samsung, 1 of western digital, same size
>>> to my surprise the samsung gives the problems, so this brand i will not
>>> recommend
>>>
>>> http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array
>>>
>>> the biggest headache are winxp pc's on the network and usb flashdrives
>>> loaded with virus junk, and how to keep the file server virus free
>>
>> You could run clamav as a cron job every night. Don't forget to run
>> 'freshclam' to update the virus signatures. Clamav doesn't have as
>> many viruses in its database as commercial tools, but it's better than
>> nothing.
>>
>>> still thinking about how to backup the file server
>>
>> Bacula is included in DL, this is what I use.
>>
>
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