-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, you essence-suckers :)
I am, who would have guessed, rather new to the bloodsuck industry. I managed to get a (sorta) running configuration up and running, it's beeing used to backup 4 clients over the network to a 24/7 online backup-to-file server. For the not-so-faint-of-heart: [1] bacuda-dir.conf: http://alpha-labs.net/bacula/bacula-dir.conf [2] bacuda-sd.conf : http://alpha-labs.net/bacula/bacula-sd.conf Any hints regarding "You could have done this way better if you had.." are more than welcome, but thats not the reason I am molesting this mailing list. ;) Problem 1: *NO* client is online 24/7 or even at foreseeable times. Thus, my question: I made a small ping-script that pings the host in question. Because it is "ping", it exits with !=0 on unreachable, thus, the backup will never commence. I also added "Rerun Failed Levels" and "Reschedule On Error" as well as "Reschedule Interval = 15m". My understanding is this: On a backup job, the server pings the client. If the client is down, the ping fails and so does the job, which, because it failed (Reschedule On Error) it is to be rescheduled in 15 minutes from now, for an unlimited retries until the host comes up again. Thus, a (not-so-elegant but) working solution for my problem? Problem 2: Restoring. Even tho every backup process writes a bootstrap, and the restore jobs have bootstraps parameters, every restore command takes /var/db/bacuda/restore.bsr as bootstrap. I dont particularly mind that, but what if two client restore at the same time? Wont they overwrite each others bootstraps? Problem 3: Regardless of my "Storage" instruction in the BackupJob definitions, every restore takes "StoragePDA" as default storage. Question 1: If I understand it correctly, all backup files on hdd are deleted after 60 days - in order to free up space? You all have done a remarkable job, i congratulate you. I am also in love with that cute bat with the huge eyes. :) Thank you in advance for your kind help, very much appreciated. Christian. - -- ,---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Christian Reiss | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon | PGP-Key ID: 02FF71B2 \ / Campaign | Public Key: http://demonlord.de/pgp.txt X against HTML | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ in eMails | | "Don't give up. Lose interest." `---------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDTSDOGLayMgL/cbIRAoU/AKDGWSmXYLLZ+fBJhgb/qbtg4aQmBgCfT0Pm c1Ty5q23pRs2Pj2P6gcDh2Y= =Ce4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
