Hi.
Robert Andersson wrote:
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! :)
Indeed... one of the best open source manuals I know. At least the most detailed one. Recently, I think the manual could need a major rework, but I still think about seriously proposing or even starting this.
<snip a detailed explanation of your backup scheme using rsync over ssh>
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?
First Question: No, and I know that it is done. Just look into the mailing list archive - there was a discussion of this recently.
Second Question: I wouldn't recommend this to you. Your backup works, and the bottle neck in your setup is the connection to the clients, and you pretty much optimized that using rsync.
Bacula can't do differential backups at file level, so the amount of data to transfer will not become less.
Third Question: Yes, using the console programs. You can restrict the director to accept commands from a client machine console, and you can configure restrictions that a client console can only start jobs concerning itself. (I never tried this.)
Using a simple script, it should be possible to have the client determine if it needs to be backed up, open the necessary ssh tunnels, connect to the director, start the backup, wait, disconnect, close the tunnels, and print a nice message :-)
Still, in your place, I would not do that but rather keep your existing setup. Perhaps you might think about using bacula at your site instead of Legato Networker, but that might be quite another question.
Arno
yours, /robert
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