Hi all! I am looking for a real backup system for our 50 something dual boot (win/linux) notebooks to replace my rsync over ssh hacks. Bacula seems nice so I downloaded the manual and started to read up on it. Nice work, and a very good manual! :)
Though, my problem is that these notebooks are offsite, universities mostly but also at some companies. Spread all over the place, well Sweden and New Zeeland really. Neither does our organisation let me have a DNS so I can not use that dynamic update capability that is suggested in section "Backing Up Portables Using DHCP". Also I have no control over the other organisations firewalls, but ssh seems to be the way through. Today I use, as stated above, rsync over ssh to do the backups on certain dirs (excluding caches etc etc) to our SUN Fire V440 server which stores a snapshot (using the rsync diff algorithm to keep the network traffic at a minimum) once a week of these dirs on disk. The client machine first checks if it has been more than a week since last backup and if it can establish a ssh connection, then does the actual backup. The SUN server is then backed up every night to tape via the backup server with Legato Networker. Ok this is not a smart solution and it is a waste of disk and tapes... :) But it really works, even over a 56k modem! I have two users using it with their 56k modems and they report that it takes at most 10 minutes if they have been really really busy. So is there any reason bacula could not use a ssh tunnel? Would you think switching to bacula would be an option here? Can the bacula client initiate a backup jobs? yours, /robert -- Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
