Hello, I'll leave it to the list to answer Question 1 and any others they wish, as they are better at it than I am ...
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 16:42, Christian Reiss wrote: > 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? Yes. However, that problem is fixed in 1.37.x > > Problem 3: > Regardless of my "Storage" instruction in the BackupJob definitions, > every restore takes "StoragePDA" as default storage. Either add "storage=xxx" to the restore command line, or use the mod option to modify it before starting the restore job. > > Question 1: > If I understand it correctly, all backup files on hdd are deleted after > 60 days - in order to free up space? Bacula never deletes Volumes it wrote. > > > You all have done a remarkable job, i congratulate you. Thanks. > I am also in love with that cute bat with the huge eyes. :) Yes, me too. Thanks to the guy(s) who found it for us (Michael Scherer I think). > > > Thank you in advance for your kind help, > very much appreciated. > > Christian. -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- 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
