Backups allowing individual file restoration
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Mar 14 17:00:11 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:36 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Gerry Doris wrote:
> > I'm looking for an application that will create an image of a full
> > Fedora drive that can be used for either a bare metal restore or can be
> > used to restore individual directories or files. I use Partition Image
> > for this for my Window boxes.
> >
> > I've tried using Partimage. It's a great program but it only creates
> > images of complete partitions and can only restore the complete
> > partition...no directory or file access. It looks like G4U and G4L
> > actually use Partimage so I assume they work the same.
> >
> > I don't want to use either CD's or DVD's. I would like to
> > backup/restore either to another hard drive on the system being backed
> > up or across my network to a server.
> >
> > Any reommendations would be appreciated.
>
> bacula can backup to disks on the same or other servers. Moreover, it
> keeps a database of the backed-up files, allowing retrieval of
> individual files by date if required. Bare metal restores are also possible.
>
> Highly recommended.
>
> http://www.bacula.org/
>
> Paul.
>
I tried bacula and went back to mondorescue.
It seemed bacula does no compression so it relies on the native
compression on the tape drives to save space. It wasted a lot of drive
space to do a backup to drive.
MondoRescue OTOH does compression to the level (0 - 9) you specify so
the savings in drive space for the backups on my system was more than
50%.
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