[SLL] bacula client without daemon, and backup tool preferences

[Jim Richardson]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 19:14 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Can Bacula File daemon (the client) be ran via cron to initiate the backup 
> instead of always running on the client machine?
> 
> I have been searching docs for details on this, but haven't found yet.
> 
> Also, if you have any comments on backup tools and your opinions or 
> comparisons with bacula, please let us know.
> 
> In my case, I am implementing a backup server to backup various FreeBSD, 
> CentOS, and Windows servers.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeremy C. Reed


We use Bacula at work, in a mixed network of Linux and MS machines.
Works fine, but we leave the daemon running. Why do you want it off? it
uses *very* little in the way of resources. 

Still, if you wanted, a cron job to start/stop it would be fine, since
the server doesn't care if it isn't there except when it tries to
contact it. 

-- 
Jim Richardson <warlock at eskimo.com>
Erisian Claw