Hi
Frank Altpeter wrote:
Hi there,
i'm just in the beginning to try to set up a new storage system, which is intented to backup only on file storage devices. So, this server has a lot of disk space (2.4G), currently splitted to 8 partitions.
There IS a typo, right?
:-)
I once build a backup system with Legato NetWorker, so i'm still trying to find out how to make things with bacula like it was with networker ...
Without knowing Legato - I guess this approach is not the most efficient way. From my experience, it's best to throw out the things you know about other products for the same purpose when you start using something new. Of course I know that this is not easy...
One of these things is how to create job groups to group single jobs together and run them all at one command (manually or by schedule). Is such possible?
No, not by itself and currently.
A future version of bacula might offer a similar function, when one job can start others. This is in the development version. Apart from that: Job grouping (and other, related things like putting multiple filesets andclients into one job) might be very useful, so I could imagine that trying to persuade someone to imlement them might be worth the effort.
What I would do if I needed to manually start a given set of jobs more than a few times: I'd write a small shell script to send the appropriate commands to the console, like
echo 'start job=xxx
yes
start job=yyy storage=zzz
yes
' | bconsole
Another problem is that i'm unable to manage how to set jobs up that they can save their data in more than just one (or two) storage devices. I thought that pools are intented to prevent such things like restricting a single job to a single device.
No, sorry. Using multiple storage devices for one job is not possible currently. It's one of the things Kern works on right now, kind of.
Pools don't help you there, too.
My wish would be to have my 8 devices and a handfull of pools and jobdefs and define a client into a jobdef which has a number of devices it can use.
You will have to wait a little for this. If you want to know more you could reade some interestings posts in the developers mailing list. Perhaps you might contribute some ideas as well.
Until bacula is ready for the setup you plan, you might get used to he way it works now, so you can help testing the next version :-)
After all, i'm not really sure if bacula is the best choice when building a backup system with file devices only, so any hints are appreciated...
To my knowledge, there is nothing that makes using disk based difficult in bacula. If there are other, better solutions available is something that is very hard to determine as it depends strongly on your needs and the amount of money you want to spend...
Arno
Regards,
Frank
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