On Monday 28 November 2005 00:33, Harry Putnam wrote: > Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - 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. > > Well, I thought that was what I was describing. I'm visualizing the > gentoo data being networked to the external drive attached to one of > the win boxes too, not just the winxp data. > > Another fact of my setup is that the winxp boxes all talk to each > other on gigbit ethernet which adjusts itself to 10/100 when it finds > it. Gigabit is nearly a necessity with video files if you use one > machine to render while another does the editing. Also important when > backing up from a machine not attached to external drive and moving > its data to that external drive. > > So I'm guessing the FD on a winbox will talk to diretor over 10/100 > ethernet but actually move files on gigabit ethernet, since the > receptical drive will be on one of the winxp boxes. > > I've never gotten around to installing gigbit adapters on my main desktop > (gentoo) or the fw (openbsd). Or in fact on my laptop which really > needs it. The other two don't really. > > Anyway to get to another aspect of all this: > > After rereading the part about volumes and pools etc. > > Tell me if I'm getting the right picture: > [Bac-dir > Bac-SD > here] FD > Linux <-----> win1 <-> external drive > FD | | > win2 win3 > FD FD > External drive has a pool with volumes named after each box.
Please look at the picture in the beginning of the Bacula manual, because Bacula does not work the way you show it -- only the SD talks to drives, not the FD, and FDs do not talk to other FDs. > > Each of these volumes may have several different trees from the source > machine. Like /etc /home /home/projects being separate inside the > volume. And the incremental to each also separate or however bacula > organizes stuff. > > The winboxs may be the same. That is, a few directory trees but not > necessaryily the whole box. > > I'd probably leave the OS partition on win boxes to ghost, since those > disc-images are so easy to use in case of a full wipeout. > > My 160Gb external drive is shrinking as I write... hehe. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- 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
