Hi !
I`m in the process of creating a initial bacula configuration for our
site and i want to check that i understood everything correctly.
For each Client that gets backed up i need:
bacula-client installed & configured on the client
client definition in bacula-dir.conf (unique for each client)
fileset definition in bacula-dir.con (maybe some clients share a fileset
if the partition-layout matches)
job definition in bacula-dir.conf (a job can only have one client)
Now i could have one pool for each client, several pools that clients
share or one pool that all clients share. Same goes for the
Schedule-definitions, right ?
What happens if i specifiy a schedule to run at 01:00 every day and more
than one job directive points to that schedule ? Either the director
executes the jobs in a random order or i specify a priority in the job
and the director sorts them according to that ?
When backing up to disk - are there performance problems with concurrent
jobs ? I can understand that messes up a tape-volume but does that count
for disk-backup too ? Would it be advisable to enable data-spooling in
this case ? When backing up 30 clients doing one after the other is out
of the question because two of those clients (fileservers) need about 10
hours each for their backup (with amanda & compression). With amanda i
am running up to 20 simultaneous jobs with most of the time spent with
6-10 concurrent jobs.
I will probably only have two pools (one for fullbackup, one for
incrementals) configured, each pointing at a 1 TB Array. But i have not
made up my mind considering the pools but since they are only going to
disk i got the impression that it will be sufficient to create one pool
per storage device, is that correct ?
I also plan to "backup" the backup-files to tape - Is it correct that i
could just configure a tape-backup job with a fileset that points to the
storage location where the pools with their volumes reside ? How would i
go about restoring those files in case of a total loss ? (At the moment
we got 3 rotating tape-sets and one is always kept offsite in case the
company building vanishes or something ;) ). Or is there a better
solution to this ? (Getting the on-disk backups to tape that is).
Lots of questions :-)
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Holtkamp Riege Software International GmbH
System Administration Mollsfeld 10
40670 Meerbusch, Germany Phone: +49-2159-9148-41
mail: holtkamp [at] riege.com Fax: +49-2159-9148-11
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