Hello, Bacula experts.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the CDP plugin is part of the community
edition. I'm hoping to take full advantage of this.
I'm running it on a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS bare metal cloud server.
After looking at the main reference manual section 47.1, I still have questions:
- If I want to specify multiple users to be monitored, do I just have multiple
Plugin = "cdp: userHome=/home/<username>" directives in my director FileSet /
Include configuration?
- Is it legal to specify a number of Plugin directives in my FileSet Include
block as well as multiple "File = /path/to/dir-to-monitor" directives all
together ?
- I'm seeing evidence that my /root/.cdp-sdir is the only place where the spool
directory is created (I'm running my fd as root), despite me having multiple
"cdp: userHome" lines, so what exactly are the semantics of this directive? The
documentation says that this points to the home directory of the cdp user,
which presumably would be the user running the fd, and the place where the
spool directory is placed, but I want to monitor multiple places, including
user home directories and key places such as /var/lib/mysql where I didn't
think the Plugin = "cdp: user=<username>" directive was appropriate, so I'm
using the userHome directive for these cases. Hope it works.
- I don't see /opt/bacula/bin/cdp-client running continuously on my /bin/ps -Af
command output, am I expected to launch this myself at startup? Since I'm
seeing evidence that spooling is happening, with the config I've described, in
what cases is this client automatically run? For example, is this client only
run when a job is launched? What is the recommended way of setting this up?
- Since the Linux cdp uses the inotify API, whose man page states is not
recursive, am I assured that when I specify a directory that CDP will tell
inotify to monitor all its subdirectories as well?
- ChatGPT insists that in the file daemon configuration each directory to back
up may be specified in a separate "Plugin {cdp: userHome=/home/<username>}
block but I see nothing in the documentation that corroborates this, it also
says that when specifying in this way, the director FileSet block may have just
a single plugin line referencing no directories{ Options {...} Plugin = "cdp"}.
Is my just my AI hallucinating or does this configuration work ?
Many thanks,
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