I'm a TSA at a large school board. The server is at my main school, but
because of new policies that came in when we switched over to Active
Directory from Novell I don't have login rights to the fileserver anymore.
This means that I can't install the bacula client.
There is no sane backup solution at my biggest school so I decided to use
Ubuntu LTS, a terrabyte external HD and bacula. I do the backups in the
middle of the night (which, of course, is how bacula really likes to work
;-) and workstations are shut down at 6:30 PM so the number of open files is
minimal. This really is the best I can do at the moment unfortunately.
I'm trying to document how well things work (and, except for this issue,
they work perfectly) so that I can argue for the client being installed on
the server. I don't hold out much hope though.
Mark Coolen
On 13 April 2010 08:26, Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On 13/04/10 20:10, Mark Coolen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the ideas. I can't run the bacula client on the server, so
>> I'm forced to do things this way (I know it isn't, and that's a huge
>> understatement, the right way to do it).
>>
>
> Yeah, yer not kidding. For one thing, there's no way to use the volume
> shadow copy service over a cifs mount from a *nix box, so you won't be able
> to back up files that're open on the Windows box by a local app or one using
> a file remotely over smb/cifs. You also won't be able to get consistent
> copies of files that're written to at the time of backup.
>
> You really can't get *any* saner backup option than this?
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
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