On 2/6/07, Alan O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have a situation where we have a single tape library, (IBM 3581 > Ultrium Tape Loader), which is connected via a fibre SAN to a mix of > Intel Blade's, (running RH Linux or Win 2K), and a couple of P570 > servers running AIX. I am trying to put together a multi-platform > backup strategy and am investigating Bacula as an option. > > My question is: > > I would like to set it up to do the backups to the drive directly on > each of the platforms that can see the tape drive, only doing > network backups where necessary to cut network load. We would be using > only one tape per night, (LTO-3, lot's of space), but would need to > co-ordinate the jobs so that the hosts pass the drive around seamlessly > without fighting over it. > > Is this feasible with Bacula ? > > If so, how would you do it ? > If not, any alternate suggestions ? > Bacula sends the data directly from the filedaemon on each client to the storage daemon with out going through the director (main bacula server).
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