> > It looks like I need to add a server name option to the exchange plugin > to support the case where we want to back up a clustered exchange > server. > > My ideas for this are: >
I think I've been approaching this all wrong. What we need is an fd on each physical server, and then an additional fd on the 'virtual server' to back up the clustered resources. This requires: . Installing bacula-fd service as normal, but making sure that it only binds to the address of the node . Creating a new service (copy and paste from the registry should be sufficient) on each physical server (eg bacula-fd-cluster) that loads a different config. The differences being: . Name = <clustername>-fd . Address = <virtual ip address of the cluster> . Working/PidDirectories pointing to different places so as not to conflict . Service Start Type set to Manual (the next step does this automatically I think) . Creating a Generic Service in the windows cluster admin tool, with dependancies on 'Cluster IP Address' and 'Cluster Name', and 'Use Network Name for computer name' selected. That last bit is what will make the Exchange backup 'just work'. That way, the normal fd backs up the physical machine as normal, and the cluster fd backs up the clustered resources (shared disk, exchange, etc). Windows clustering takes care of making sure that the fd is running somewhere on the cluster. I haven't yet tried this, but will attempt to do so tonight. Now I know a bit about what makes Windows tick, and a bit about the concepts of high availability in general, but the first time I ever used Windows Clustering was approximately 3 hours ago, so I'm a bit new and some of the above could be a bit misguided, but any other way just seems like a bit of a hack (eg and how would you control which physical fd backs up the cluster?) If anyone knows anything about windows clustering, please feel free to enlighten me! Thanks James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
