Re: [Bacula-users] Backup-Proxy-Solution needed

[Rich <ri...@hq...>]

On 2007.05.28. 10:55, Stefan Wintermeyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we'd like to use Bacula as our one and only backup solution. But
> we have a problem with all home-office-installations. They normaly
> work with an asynchron DSL connection. It would take days to
> backup to our normal backup server in the internet. And normaly they
> only have a couple of hours during the night.
> 
> Having a bright moment I thought: "hmmm... why don't we install
> some sort of proxy at the home offices? People could backup their
> stuff to the proxy and the proxy syncs with the central server.
> Time wouldn't be such a big issue (even if it takes a couple of
> days to sync)."

well, maybe clustered bacula servers might be helpful here, if those 
ever get implemented ;)

currently your best bet probably is to use rsync at some point, which 
would work nicely for syncing.

> Has anybody a solution for that problem?
> 
>   Stefan
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-- 
  Rich