Re: [Bacula-users] Single tape drive visible to multiple hosts

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

> Bacula sends the data directly from the filedaemon on each client to
> the storage daemon with out going through the director (main bacula
> server).
>
I wanted to clarify one thing. The storage daemon is run on the
machine that holds the tape drive. As a result of this design I
believe bacula does the minimal network transfer but not exactly what
you were describing.


Here is a diagram of the interaction of these three services:
http://bacula.org/dev-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION00480000000000000000

John