On Monday 28 November 2005 18:18, Harry Putnam wrote: > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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. > > My picture sucked... but now I'm really confused. If the SD is all > that can talk to drives and an FD is all that works on windows.... > Does that mean the recipient (External drive) must be connected to > the Linux box?
Yes, in all cases the drive must be connected to the Linux box. However, it doesn't necessarily have to be physically plugged into the Linux box. It could be connected as a NFS or a Samba network mount, but those are not configurations that I would recommend. > > Or if external drive is connected to a winxp machine: > > FD passes read data to SD across network. SD then pushes it back > across the network to a remote drive. Source Data crosses the network > twice... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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
