Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

[Phil S. <phi...@sp...>]

Dean Waldow wrote:
> This discussion relates to a question or an idea for bacula use with
> many clients.  For some linux programs, config files are sometimes being
> organized as nested folders.   The current method of a single
> configuration file for each (dir, sd, and fd) seems very reasonable.The
> dir.conf file may get pretty big when one would be trying to use bacula
> with 25-50+ clients.   However, when the number of clients grows up to
> numbers like suggested above I start to wonder about a folder based
> alternative or an 'include /etc/bacula/dir/jobs/*' idea.  Each client
> could have a separate file for it client specific info (job etc...).  
> Bacula-dir would read in the standard dir.conf and then append any text
> data in a file in a given or specified folder. Perhaps it is just a
> preference to deal with one big text file or many small text files...
> 
> I hate to suggest something I don't have the skills to implement but it
> was something I have been wondering about. Our science dept is thinking
> of using bacula for 40+ faculty computers and that got me wondering. 

There is already a facility to include individual per-job files into the
configuration using the @filename syntax, if you want to do it this way.
 This ought to meet most inclusion needs.


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