Hello everyone, We are currently rethinking our backup system and I would like to ask for a few tips:
We currently use two servers with TrueNAS Core. The first of which provides the shares for the users and the second serves as a backup target via ZFS replication. However, as we now want to back up far more services and servers and also write the data to tape, the pure ZFS-replication is no longer sufficient for us. I therefore took a look at Bacula and made my first steps with it. The first TrueNAS server for the shares, which is to be backed up by Bacula in the future, is to remain. TrueNAS is an appliance and can only be expanded with other software to a very limited extent. Everything must be realized in a BSD-jail or a virtual machine. An official Bacula plugin has not been available for some time, but even this would only have run in a jail. I therefore installed bacula-fd on the first server in a jail via the BSD package sources. I had to import all my ZFS datasets individually into this jail to make them accessible for the bacula-fd. First backup attempts with it work, even the Windows ACLs seem to be backed up. However, it bothers me that this way I lose all the features that the ZFS file system actually offers me and I can't even make ZFS snapshots accessible in a jail. So my first specific question is what is the "best practice" for backing up a TrueNAS server with Bacula? Is the way via the jail really the only possible and also the "official" way? Would it be conceivable to switch from TrueNAS Core (based on BSD) to TrueNAS Scale (based on Linux) to get better support for Bacula? I had the same problem with the backup server. Currently I have installed the server components of Bacula in a Debian virtual machine on the TrueNAS and deployed the file storage for the bacula-sd via NFS export from the TrueNAS. This also works in principle, and I have also imported the tape drive into the virtual machine. But the whole thing is not very fast and it seems unnecessarily complicated to me as it is at the moment. Hence the question of whether it makes sense to use a TrueNAS Core as a system for a Bacula server or whether it would make more sense to replace the TrueNAS at this point? A Debian installed directly would have direct access to the hardware and especially the storage. What do you think? Thanks to all of you so far. Best regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
