On Apr 6, 2005 11:28 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, this server has a lot of disk space (2.4G), currently splitted to
> > 8 partitions.
> There IS a typo, right? :-)
Uhm, yes, how did you notice? :)
> > 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...
The Legato's way of grouping is not that great either, but i was able
to work with it. You know, if you've got a bunch of clients (about 50
hosts) where two or more are directly related and should be backed up
together it's a bit easyer to do a 'start group marketing-server' than
starting each of them manually.
> > 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.
I would second that try :)
> 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
Thought about that, and i think it will be that way for me to archive
the results i try to get.
> 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.
So it would be best practice to have one file device at all (which
would be _very_ big, or define multiple devices and try to deliver the
clients equally over all?
I think, the 'one file device' solutions sounds better for me, as long
as i have multiple pools that create a new volume for each
backup/day/client/whatever to be able to cycle at all. Otherwise it
would write into one volume until the disk is full, which doesn't make
sense if you want to keep some backups :-)
The 'one file device' solution does have it's caveats, though - AFAIK
FreeBSD is unable to handle partitions with more than 512G of size
correctly, so using one partition with a size of 2.4T (hehe, no typo
this time :) unlikely to work.
> Perhaps you might contribute some ideas as well.
I can try... but most of my backup knowledge comes from my work with
legato (in combination with a autochanger robot, that is) - so it
might not be that helpful...
> 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 :-)
I have to :-) Because i need a disk based backup solution that is able
to save data from about 40 clients (growing) within acceptable time
and with being able to have a retention time of about 3 months.
Besides that, i need a client/server system that is able to backup
unix and windows hosts (not my fault - customers' housing :).
I don't think that there are open source projects other than bacula
that can handle this. And a software like legato networker is
waaaaaaaay too expensive for a two-people-company...
Regards,
Frank
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