Hi John, Thank for the reply. Are you managing those files by hand ( vi ) or in some other fashion? I have a couple of other admins that will be working on this as well and I'm going to try and put together a CGI or PHP app to add / remove Clients, Pools and such. Just wondering if you know if something like this exists before I started working on it.
Regards, Seth On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:48 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> I am in the process of switching our backup system from just rsync >> and tar to Bacula. I've got it running nicely in a lab with 2 >> Clients but having trouble planning a strategy for going live. I've >> got about 150 machines that need backing up. I'd prefer to use just >> one director to manage all the Clients. Has anyone implemented >> Bacula in this way? If so do you have any suggestions or example >> confs? >> > At times I have had about 1/2 that many clients. > > I have my director, database and storage on 3 different 64 bit gentoo > linux boxes. None of these machines were bought to run bacula alone as > they run other key system tasks. The director and storage are on dual > processor 2GHz Opteron 246s with 4GB of memory and the postgres > database is on an Athlon64 3200 with 2GB of memory. > >> I'm worried about how large the bacula-dir.conf will become with so >> many jobs, pools, etc. It would be nice if the conf could take a >> glob include like /etc/bacula/clients/*conf or something. The >> documentation is very good but seems geared for much fewer Client >> configurations. >> > You can use the @ syntax to include additional files. I have divided > my bacula-dir.conf file many times. > > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-filesets.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobs.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobdefs.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-clients.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-storage.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-pools.conf > @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-schedules.conf > > And some of these (like clients) are divided again for windows and > linux. > >> I plan to backup to File across several storage arrays and would >> prefer to keep the Volumes per Clients (e.g. web22-vol, web23-vol, >> mysql4-vol, etc) doing a weekly full and daily incremental. >> > I have way more pools than that but I have a lot of need to do > archival so most of pools are a result of that. > >> > John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
