Hello, 27.02.2010 14:46, Stan Meier wrote: > Hello world, > > our company is planning to move to Bacula. Preliminary tests are > looking fine, but we really don't know how to deal with a few things. > > As for hardware, we got a 24TB raid and access to a working tape > library with several drives.
Good start :-) > 1. Keeping configuration sane: With more than 120 servers, we need to > find a way to keep the configuration files readable. Our servers all > follow some naming scheme, for example, we got "appserver01" through > "appserver08" or "webcache01" through "webcache04". We think we should > split client configurations for each server group, so the file > "clientdefs/appserver.conf" would define all appserver0X clients. > Furthermore, most of those servers will need a default job performed > (/etc, /root, /opt and so on). While it's easy to reuse a "JobDefs" > stanza to actually define all those jobs, isn't there any way to > "group" those servers? Do we really have to define more than 120 jobs, > one for each server? The way to go, in my opinion, is to create the actual configuration dynamically - you can include script output into the configuration *anywhere*... now use a script that creates the actual configuration dynamically, starting with a template where you insert the client name. Not very difficult, but you'll want to spend some time testing :-) > 2. Backup availability: One plan would be to use a large part of the > 24TB available as a FilePool (or several). Each job would then write > it's data to that pool. A Copy job could copy the data to tape later > on - with the advantage that restores of recent data would be quite > fast since they would still be sitting on disk. Before running the > backup the next day, we would simply recycle those file volumes. Is > that a reasonable strategy? Yes. Properly set up, that's a very reasonable approach. You'll need to understand retention times and how to select jobs for migration in detail. Cheers, Arno > Any hints on this would be very appreciated. > > > Stan > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
