[ale] seeking backup with versioning

[Jim Kinney]

bacula is very robust and capable of enterprise class backups.
Depending on how the backups are configured you would have multiple
restore options for the next failure. The docs with bacula are
outstanding (hundreds of well written pages in a PDF format).

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, PairOfTwins <PairOfTwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
> All:
>
> In searching ale.org, I see ext4 in discussions of versioning.  I've
> been asked (finally) to replace a Win2K server, which houses the
> database for 7 Windoze workstations.  Since the office manager just lost
> 6 weeks of Outlook emails when the pst file was corrupted AND the copy
> done by nightly backup was also corrupted ---- keeping prior versions is
> a basic requirement.
>
> eBox uses rdiff-backup
> ClearOS I can't determine
> FreeNAS I can't determine
> Ubuntu Server uses BackupPC or Bacula
>
> As an Ubuntu user, I'm most comfortable with deb distros.  Anyone have a
> suggestion of a server distro with suitable backup built in, or shall I
> use Ubuntu server?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
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