On Saturday 06 January 2007 16:07, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 20:14, Grant Hess wrote: > > It isn't really a problem for me, only curiosity. I've only got a dozen > > machines backing up at this point, easy enough to build a configuration > > to handle it out of individual jobs. > > > > Thanks for the information, > > > > Grant. > > im in the process of migrating from veritas netbackup to bacula (im working on > my new setup this weekend actually). i will say, one of the things i do like > about netbackup is, that you ;ay out your backup scheme by creating > different "policies". each policy defines time windows the job is allowed to > run, what volumes to backup (if they exist), what storage device the job will > backup to, and what types of jobs will run following this policy (full, > cumulative, monthly, yearly, etc). one the policy is defined, then clients > are associated to it, and each client gets a seperate job run, following the > definitions laid out in the policy. i was on backup exec for years until > last year when we upgraded to netbackup at work, and this policy based format > is far superior to backup exec's "one giant all encompasing job" method. > netbackup also can run multiple clients simultaneously.
Well, Bacula has essentially all the same things as netbackup, it just does it a slightly different way. You define Schedules, FileSets, Clients, Catalogs, Pools, Storages, .. then typically tie them together in a JobDefs which is similar to a Policy. Then create Jobs that reference the JobDefs and tweak them to say change the client, ... It is essentially the same thing but just done differently. > > getting back OT... can bacula run multiple clients simultaneously? Yes, of course, except for Bacula it is called running multiple Jobs simultaneously. > and, so > far ive not read that it cant be done, but one of my clients is a linux > running on ppc... the straw thats breaking the camels back for me and > netbackup is that i cant backup my linux-ppc box (and im assuming that bacula > will be able to). There is a Bacula client for Mac OS X, but I'm not if that is what you need. Some people backup old Mac's by mounting the Mac's disks on a Win32 machine then backing them up through the Win32 client. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
