[Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Stan Meier
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. 1. Keeping configuration sane: With more than 120 serv

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Stan Meier
* Arno Lehmann : > 27.02.2010 14:46, Stan Meier wrote: > > 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&quo

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Stan Meier
* Kevin Keane : > > From: Stan Meier [mailto:stan.me...@billigmail.org] While you are > > right and creating a configuration based on scripts is quite easy > > (and has added benefits, for example that you dan define one file > > pool per server group), we still have

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-28 Thread Stan Meier
* mehma sarja : > A hunerd-n-twenty jobs makes me wince. Why not simplify...a couple of ideas > and feel free to knock them down: It's really not as bad as it sounds. A little Perl script parses a text file which contains groups of servers with their respective passwords, include/exclude lists and

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backup to multiple disk volumes

2010-03-01 Thread Stan Meier
Hi there, I just noticed that (for disk backups) by 1. (director) specifying multiple "Device = " lines in the "Storage" section that is referenced by a given (single!) Pool and 2. (storage daemon) setting "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" per device Bacula does perform a true parallel backup -

[Bacula-users] Backing up 32bit clients with a 64 bit director/sd?

2010-03-04 Thread Stan Meier
Hi there, is it possible to backup a 32 bit filedaemon client using a 64bit server? Cheers Stan -- Download IntelĀ® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, an

[Bacula-users] Lower elvel backups saving way too many data

2010-06-14 Thread Stan Meier
Hello world, our Problem at the moment is this: We have configured monthly full, weekly differential and daily incremental backups. Unfortunately, the differential and incremental backups seem to lose all information about the higher level jobs. Symptoms: The differential level backup, one week a