Greetings All, Being a little new to Bacula, please forgive my questions if they are too simplistic for the skill level of the mailing list as I am trying to learn in more detail.
I have just installed Bacula onto a fresh install of a Fedora 5 server (which we will mirror to another machine for storage in case this server fails) that we will use to backup some clients manchines. This server will only be used for backup data and Bacula and nothing else. Most of the client machines are Windows and I would like to know if someone could please help me with some simple configurations so that we can test and fine-tune Bacula? For instance we would like to setup configurations for "groups" of client systems to be scheduled for backups and then have bacula perform the backup on each group of client systems and also encrypt the backed up data which will be written to the local test-backup server that bacula is running on in each group directory perhaps. The idea is simple in my mind although I may not have explained it correctly to the group. For example we will have 10 client machines for testing and 1 backup server with 500GB space. 1. Group "A" will have clients labeled 1 - 5 2. Group "B" will have clients labeled 6 - 10 3. We will "later" have another server that will just mirror the main backup server so that we will have a redundant system in place as well. Maybe Bacula has the ability to have multiple servers running Bacula and to then syncronize the data between them which would be nice as well. We want to run each group of backup at different scheduled dates and times and eventually we will be backing up other platforms as well. My thoughts was to make a sub-directory for each group and within that have a sub-directory for each client so that bacula will place that clients backup encrypted data into that particular sub-direcotry to keep things organized. All of this may not be how Bacula actually does things, but it was my first attempt as a logical layout. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and have a great day, Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
