I've been using Bacula to backup servers at my agency (300GB+ of data) for the past year and a half. I've found it to be very reliable, flexible, and relatively easy to configure and use. I use an older version (1.36), packaged for sarge, which lacks some features I would like - migrating backups between volumes, ssl support. However, version 2.0 has just been released, and looks like it's got some sweet new features (my wishlist features included). It even runs on windows (in addition to *nix), if you swing that way.
http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html .en
Perhaps more accurately, users of windows have made no progress. Quite a few of the worms that have made big headlines over the last few years are ones that make use of exploits for which patches were already available. It's long been said that people are the greatest security problem. And I believe that applies to Microsoft's security problems as well. As long as the education of Microsoft's user base is neglected (or actively refused by some), MS's efforts (feeble as they may seem at times) will have limited success.
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I've been using Bacula to backup servers at my agency (300GB+ of data) for the past year and a half. I've found it to be very reliable, flexible, and relatively easy to configure and use. I use an older version (1.36), packaged for sarge, which lacks some features I would like - migrating backups between volumes, ssl support. However, version 2.0 has just been released, and looks like it's got some sweet new features (my wishlist features included). It even runs on windows (in addition to *nix), if you swing that way. http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html .en
Perhaps more accurately, users of windows have made no progress. Quite a few of the worms that have made big headlines over the last few years are ones that make use of exploits for which patches were already available. It's long been said that people are the greatest security problem. And I believe that applies to Microsoft's security problems as well. As long as the education of Microsoft's user base is neglected (or actively refused by some), MS's efforts (feeble as they may seem at times) will have limited success.