Re: [Bacula-users] Can I use Bacula to backup...

[Guy <gu...@br...>]

Yes it's possible, but you'll have to install Bacula on each site.

You'll need the client installed on everything that you want to backup, and you'll need to pick one system to NFS mount the fileserver and be used as the SD ( storage device). Something possibly the same as the SD will then be the DIR (director) which manages the backup for that site.

I think the DIR sees the data as it passes on the wire from the FD to the SD so you'll want one DIR on each site so that you don't see data across the WAN.

So you'll not be able to use a single Bacula to control it all, however in my opinion that's a good thing.  Making it less complex when having to do a restore when your the most stressed is a good thing.  

I store my Bacula configurations in a subversion version control system.  This means that I can push the configs to where I want them and also manage them centrally. I also have the ability to track changes done on the configuration files.

---Guy

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On 29 Jan 2011, at 19:02, BlackAdderDK <bac...@ba...> wrote:

> ... my servers, under the following conditions:
> 
> I have 26 servers (SLES Linux), distributed across several weak WAN Links... At each location there's an NAS-box attached to the server as a NFS mount point. What I'm trying to achieve is as follows:
> 
> - Installing an central backup server (bacula?)
> - installing an agent/client on the servers behind WAN-links
> - Creating, and managing backup jobs on the central server - and the backup media is supposed to be the NFS-mountpoint.
> - ... and of course - the data must not travel across the WAN-links
> 
> Is this possible to with Bacula?
> 
> In advance, thanks
> 
> Best Regards
> 'Adder
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