Hello folks! Long time Bacula User here, pure bliss. So far I "only" backed up my personal servers and machines at home, but right now I am trying to backup our company servers (300+).
I wrote scripts to add the clients to the server - everything just works (tm). Just one thing. Simultaneous backups. And I know where its going down the drain. Some minor infor offhand: Every Server... - Should back up at 2 am in the morning, - With a full on sat 2 am, - max concurrent jobs is 10, so once a "slot" is freed, the next one jumps in, - Every Server has its own two pools: hostname-daily and hostname-weekly. - They are all backing up to our bacula-sd server. Config example for one server: Pool { Name = server1-daily Pool Type = Backup Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Use Volume Once = yes Catalog Files = yes Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 15 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Label Format = server1-daily- Maximum Volumes = 16 } Pool { Name = server1-weekly Pool Type = Backup Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Use Volume Once = yes Catalog Files = yes Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 15 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Label Format = server2-weekly- Maximum Volumes = 4 } Client { Name = server1 Address = x.x.x.x FDPort = 9102 Catalog = MySQL Password = "..." } Job { Name = "Backup Host: server1" client = "server1-fd" type = backup messages = Standard storage = bacula-sd pool = server1-daily Level = Incremental FileSet = "linuxserver" Schedule = "server1" Write Bootstrap = "/backup/bootstraps/server1.bsr" Priority = 25 Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 } Schedule { Name = "server1" Run = Level=Incremental Pool=server1-daily on SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI at 02:00 Run = Level=Full Pool=server2-weekly on SAT at 2:00 } Storage Config: Storage { Name = bacula-sd SDPort = 9103 SDAddress = x.x.x.x WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula" Pid Directory = "/var/run" Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 } Device { Name = StoreNode-01 Media Type = File Archive Device = /backup LabelMedia = yes; Random Access = Yes; AutomaticMount = yes; RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = yes; Maximum Network Buffer Size = "65536" } Device { Name = StoreNode-02 Media Type = File Archive Device = /backup LabelMedia = yes; Random Access = Yes; AutomaticMount = yes; RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = yes; Maximum Network Buffer Size = "65536" } [up to StorageNode-10] Director: Director { Name = bacula-dir DIRport = 9101 QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql" WorkingDirectory = "/var/spool/bacula" PidDirectory = "/var/run" Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 Password = "..." Messages = Daemon } Storage { Name = bacula-sd Address = 172.20.53.207 SDPort = 9103 Password = "VWfHvmlLUcy2GmcyJFltkdPlkFYDta" Device = StorageNode-01 Media Type = File } Now, everything works, but all but one client is stuck at the "waiting for storage", which as I read is due to the fact that one Device can only mount one Volume for the storage director. What I want is that the Storage-D can write to 10 files at once (yes, the hardware CAN do this). I am open for alternate approaches to this matter. What I can't do is mix server data from several servers into "one" file. Disaster Recovery (bextract) would be hell (among other legal issues). I even tried to generate a Storage Entry for the director for each file, so that every Server has its own Device, but I can't redeclate the Storage config. I can't assign multiple Devices to the Storage Entry in the director. Oh, running 2.4.4 here - don't ask :) ANY help is gladly appreciated. -Christian -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Christian Reiß -- Symgenius GmbH & Co. KG Full-Service-Provider http://power-netz.de/ Tel: +49 (0) 5382 9 53 60 3 | Fax: +49 (0) 5382 9 53 61 0 Sitz: Bad Gandersheim | HRA 111051 | Amtsgericht Braunschweig Haftende Gesellschafterin: Symgenius Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH Geschäftsführerin: Nicole Kühne | HRB111360 | Amtsgericht Braunschweig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users