| Frank Foss 2004-09-24, 2:46 am |
| mp3 lover wrote:
> Has anybody here a very good knowledge of arkeia backup software?
Good enough that I would never spend money on it... The licencing is
awkward, and becomes real expensive real fast. They licence per client,
per library, and per concurrent data stream.
It has some good concepts, for example savepacks, that are a collections
of files from one or more clients. They are "nested" so that one
savepack can contain other savepacks. A "Windows" savepack, one "Linux"
savepack, and one "All" that contains "Windows" and "Linux". Pretty clever.
Also, I really like the scheduling concept of multi-levels. A 'higher'
level will replace a lower level if they are set to occur at the same
time. That means you can schedule incrementals every day at 1:00 am.
Fulls every Sunday at 1:00am, the everyday incremental will never happen
on Sunday at 1am. "Special" fulls (Offsite every 1st Sunday every Month)
can be scheduled above "regular" fulls, and will replace the regular
fulls. And so on.
The job queuing is somewhat stupid, if one job is scheduled to start
1:00am, and the previous job that started at midnight isn't finished,
both will hang indefinitely.
The interface is awkward. Takes a lot of getting used to.
The database isn't really a database, just a giant tree structure
mirroring the file hierarchy you have backed up, with little 'stub'
files in place of the actual files from your live server. If you're
installing on a regular filesystem(ext2), you could easily run out of
inodes. Take care when creating that filesystem, and create more than
default number of inodes...
Arkeia recommends using non-Arkeia methods for backing up that
'database' hierarchy on your backup server... (What does that tell you..?)
They offer several free versions you can download and try.
I also recommend to take a look at Bacula (www.bacula.org).
The best OpenSource backup I have tried.
But I have no idea what your question really was...
Foz
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