Pete writes:

>  Well, here I go again...
>
>  One of the more popular backup solutions that comes to mind that backs up
>  Windows, Linux, Unix (incl. Solaris, and various flavors of Unix and BSD
>  (note: some BSDs don't support 'pthreads' well enough)), and MacOS is
>  Bacula.  There is a developer's guide for porting to other operating systems
>  (particularly POSIX), say MPE for instance and uses GNU C++.  It includes
>  the normal variations (full, differential, incremental), compression (gzip),
>  and encryption.  It also catalogs all of the backups and files in any of 3
>  popular open source databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL).  It has its own
>  scheduler built-in, and can schedule backups across the network.  The system
>  can scale from a single computer to hundreds on large networks.  Bacula can
>  be found here:  http://www.bacula.org/

Just a word of warning. Before anyone purchases Bacula (which is the plural of
Baculum), they should examine what they're buying:

   http://www.skullsunlimited.com/baculums.html
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum

Wirt Atmar
AICS Research, Inc.
PO Box 4691
University Park, NM  88003-4691
(800) AICS-INC
(575) 524-9800
(575) 526-4700 fax

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