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10 Below, you will find excerpts from email that users have sent us.
11 The purpose is to give you some idea of what kinds of
12 sites are running Bacula and how they are using it.
13 These testimonials are used with permission of the author.
19 <h3 style="padding: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #002244"> Norm Dressler - 2004/06/15 </h3>
20 Bacula has been awesome for us. We used to use Ar**** but I
21 have always hated the interface. And the cost was outrageous.
22 Then I found bacula and wow! Everything in Ar**** and then
23 some! The console is easy to use, easy to understand once you
24 get the hang of it, and I usually don't have any problems
27 I have 15+ machines I backup with Bacula
28 with an autoloader, and I'm extremely happy with the product.
29 Whenever someone asks me about what to use, I point them at
31 <p> Norm Dressler, Senior Network Architect</p>
37 <h3 style="padding: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #002244"> Michael Scherer - 2005/02/09 </h3>
38 Our former backup-system was ARGHserve running on NT4.
39 Due to the fact that we replaced most of our servers with
40 Linux machines we had to find some other solution.<br> At
41 first we tried ARGHserve on Linux, without much comfort.
42 Database updates took days to complete, the database
43 itself grew enormously large, ... not really something
44 you except from such an expensive piece of software.<br>
45 I began the quest for a new backup-solution, testing
46 almost anything I could find on Sourceforge and Freshmeat
47 and finally decided to go with Bacula.<br> It's perfectly
48 maintained by Kern and many others, is an (very) active
49 project with good support through maillists and an
50 irc-channel, which can be found on Freenode.<br>
52 Today we run Bacula on a SuSE based x86 machine with a
53 2.6 kernel, some RAID5-Systems and IBM Ultrium
54 Tapelibrary. Without any issues and without more work
55 than changing two tapes in the morning.<br>
57 Recoveries aren't complicated as well, you either choose
58 a jobid to restore from or let Bacula find the correct
59 jobid for a file or directory you need to recover. You
60 mark everything you need, Bacula tells you which tapes it
62 You don't even have to wait for any daemon to finish
63 database updates for backuped files, you can start with
64 the recovery right after the backup-job is done.
68 <p> Michael Scherer, some admin </p>
73 <h3 style="padding: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #002244"> Ludovicz Strappazon - 2005/03/05</h3>
74 I had previously used Veritas Netbackup, but it was really too expensive
75 for our University. Bacula permitted us to buy a library. Now, we use
76 Bacula since 10/2002 with an ADIC Scalar 24 library and LTO ultrium,
77 without any problems. I think it can do anything Netbackup could do with our
78 configuration. We backup seven Linux servers, one NT server, four
79 Windows 2003 servers and a few XP workstations. Some of these servers
80 are backed up across a firewall using ssh; some others are on a private
81 network. We tried succesfully the disaster recovery procedure on Linux
82 and had some good results in restoring Windows "from bare metal". What do I
83 like in Bacula ? It is very flexible and reliable. With its light
84 interface console, I can manage the backups from everywhere. A few words
85 about the support : it is free but efficient. I don't have to cross a
86 level 1, level 2 helpdesk to have some help, I never felt alone, and the
87 bacula-users mailing list is a mix of courtesy and honest speech. At
88 last, you don't need to be a big company to have your features requests
90 Thanks to Kern Sibbald and the others who give so much work and time
93 Ludovic Strappazon<br>
94 University Marc Bloch de Strasbourg.<br>
100 <h3 style="padding: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #002244"> Jeff Richards - 2006/08/26</h3>
101 I used Bacula at my previous employer to backup: Linux, OpenBSD, Windows 2000,XP,2003, and AIX 5.1
103 Bacula provided a solution when I had no budget for backup
104 software. The Linux systems (about 30) acted as Tivoli (TMF)
105 gateways. The Linux systems were commodity PCs, so when the IDE
106 HDs failed it took hours (usually at least 4) to clean up the
107 Tivoli environment and rebuild the failed gateway. Using Bacula
108 and mkCDrec I cut that time down to under an hour, and most of
109 that time was not spent doing anything except waiting for the
110 restore to finish. I recovered 2 failed Linux systems with
113 I would like to thank you and the entire Bacula team for an
114 excellent piece of software.
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