Hi, I hope someone can help me, I have a network with a few servers (3) and clients (5) which use the Linux platform. I have managed to find out how to connect multiple clients to the system and have them backed up!! :-)
I use a Debian Etch based server which is the main server and also doubles up as the backup server, using a second HD for backups. For this I use a 500GB HD, but as the drives of the client machines are large I have to select which part of the file systems will be backed up. Please bare with me if these questions seem trivial but I have checked the Bacula wiki and searched Google too for answers with no results. My questions are as follows: 1. In the director I have created a few clients and jobs for those clients with multiple filesets. To be able to restore the individual filesets to each machine do I need to create individual restore jobs? Currently the restore set is the default template: [# Standard Restore template, to be changed by Console program # Only one such job is needed for all Jobs/Clients/Storage ...] However I'm assuming this will only backup what is set as the default fileset? 2. For my multiple clients do I need to use multiple pools or will 1 pool store data for each machine individually? 3. Can I restore individual files with Bacula? Say for example server 5 lost a config file /etc/program/conf.config is there a way to restore just that one file and not the whole file system? Also is there a way to view the files in the database? 4. I am confused between the GUI's of Bacula, on the wiki it says that there is something called bat. How can I obtain this and what command do I need to issue to view it? (my servers don't have GUI's so I will need to do this via a remote X session through SSH!) 5. This maybe obsolete if it refers to Q4. however bconsole has a graphical mode it says from the man and help pages. What command do I need to run this? 6. Out of the GUI's mentioned can anyone view the backed up files of the machines in the pool as a list say? If not is there something that can? I have installed Bacula-web however it only shows statistics of backups and not actually 'what' has been backed up! Many thanks for any replies, sorry so many questions but they are specific and I am really new to client/server backups even with the previous reading I've done to get this far! Kaya -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbee-questions-client-server-%2B-GUI-tp20529490p20529490.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
