Subj : Re: Backup script tuning
To   : deon
From : Ganiman
Date : Thu Nov 24 2022 21:11:10

 de> I think the days of having a "server" and "manager" for back up are
 de> coming to an end.

I don't think I agree with this. Almost anything on-prem will still use this 
model and its not really going away. If you run things on cloud platforms, 
backups are just snapshots or are provided by other cloud native services, but 
for on-prem this is still very much the thing to do. Custom bash scripts that 
rely on cron jobs is not scalable to many nodes and gets very ugly to manage 
especially if you have more than one person resposible for it.

You can customize bacula to stop your docker containers and do any pre or post 
scripts/commands.

Backups are necessary. You will always need something to manage them, to 
schedule them, to point at storage devices/accounts, etc. Your bash scripts are 








































































































































































































































































just recreating this. By all means, do it your way if it works for you, but to 
say this is "coming to an end" is inaccurate.

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