--On Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 11:50 +0100 Sebastian Hegewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello, > > i should compare bacula and amanda concerning high availability. > > now my question is. is there support for a failover-scenario? > just a little example: > > i have a aktiv director and some clients and storagedaemons. now the > director fails. is it possible to switch to a passiv director so that he > will be the aktiv one. Unless you are thinking of "real-time" failover, i.e. during running jobs, I think this is pretty straightforward: Basically all stateful information of bacula is stored in the database. If you keep a stand-by director on a second machine with the configuration synced (mirrored storage for example, depends on how far you want to go...), all you need to do is to switch the IP. I'm not really familiar with failover-technology, but there sould be solutions available for switching the IP over to the standby machine. But actually I don't see the reasoning behind this. The director really is the easiest part of bacula to replace (config-files+ip) and probably the least likely to fail. You might rather have a database with failover support and a sd+tapedrive on standby. AFAIK MySQL can do this, not sure about PostgreSQL. Regards, Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
