Enhancement #497
Updated by Marc Dequènes about 8 years ago
Bacula has some drawbacks which do not improve over the last years, mainly: * - horrible CLI, difficult to search through backups and volumes * - retention is awfully complex to setup * - consolidated backups never worked with file volumes * cannot resume, so if a full backup with a lot of data fails midway, useless incomplete volumes pile-up and eat all the available space We may use another system for laptop/user backup, like duplicity for eg. On a trusted centralized backup system for server I would list these criteria: * secure transfer (TLS, SSH…) * delta transfer * compression * resumable * incremental backup: either full-incremental without full backup (except initial setup), or consolidation * proper retention settings: we should be able to express this: keep 1 backup per day during 7 days, then 1 per week during 4 weeks, then 1 per month during 1 year * long time restoration: backup format breaks infrequently and either new software can read old formats or a straightforward command can convert them to the new format * maintained: at least one maintenance release per year, no critical bug without at least a workaround for more than a month * CLI Also, would-be-nice features but we can live without it: * deduplication * single entrypoint when different category of data are to be saved (different retention for eg): single daemon and open port