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I just learned that Bacula, the open-source enterprise backup tool I've been helping work on for about two years now, is now picking up enterprise customers from Arkeia. We've previously had large sites switch to Bacula from Legato Networker, we recently had a site switch to Bacula from AMANDA because "Amanda is too f*#@$%g complicaterd to set up and does what IT wants to do, and Bacula Just Works." Now, in the last few days, we just had a large German customer switch to Bacula after their expensive Arkeia installation shot itself in the head.
(I've previously commented, though not here, upon the critical architectural flaws inherent in Arkeia's design. Suffice it to say that if I was an enterprise customer, I wouldn't rely on Arkeia if it was the last enterprise backup package on Earth. Sure, it has a pretty GUI, but the underlying engine is a steaming, fetid pile of rancid dingos' kidneys. I cannot begin to speculate on what the designers at Knox Software were thinking.)
