On Sunday 27 November 2005 18:16, Harry Putnam wrote: > Let me ask about something at the other end of my learning bacula. > Eventually I will be having bacula write the backups to an external > drive that can be hooked up via usb on any of 4 machines including my > main desktop gentoo machine.
That was my intent, too. Unfortunately the Linux kernel didn't reliably support my USB controller so I finally connected the drive through ATA. Other people seem to have less trouble with USB. I'll prefer exchangable disk trays in 5.25" format though. > The really large amounts of data will be found on 3 windows xp > machines where I work with photos and video files. Video files can > easily be several gigs by themselves. > > So I guess it would make sense to hook the external drive to which > ever one has the most data to write. And let bacula move the other > lesser amount data across the network to it. If you consider using an external USB drive and compare it to your network speed (very likely a 100 Mbps network) then it will hardly make a difference. My experience: - Network: 10 MB/sec - USB: 10 MB/sec - ATA: 40-50 MB/sec So in your case it will probably not make a difference which system you use to run and control the backup. > The recepticle drive would them be mounted as a smb share from the > gentoo box. Does this present a problem for bacula? Why don't you just put the director/storage daemon on the Gentoo box and run Bacula clients (file daemons) on the Windows boxes? That way you can directly restore files on the Windows workstations without needing a working Samba. Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
