Hi, 14.09.2007 11:26,, Achim Stumpf wrote:: > Hi list, > > I am new to bacula. I have searched already the list and had a look into > the manual. But before I start to install bacula and test it for our > purposes, I need an answer to the following question: > > I am working in a quite big data center,
If you want commercial support, you know whom to ask - I hope :-) > and we have a very old self > programmed perl script, which does the backups for us. But we think it's > time for a modern solution like bacula. I agree, even without knowing about your current setup. > The nice thing which this script does is to backup all the files and > pipe it to a script, which sends it over the network to the backup > server process. There a .tgz file is written to disk. > > We do that because we have no disk space left to write first the whole > backup on the clients disk and then to copy it from the local disk over > the network. > > Is it possible to backup clients without writing the backup files to the > local disk of the client with bacula? Yes. In fact, that is how Bacula *always* works. The only exception are things like live databases, where you typically use the database-related dump tool to create a dump of the database which you then store to tape. Of course, this dump can also be done on the backup machine, provided it has the necessary tools available. Also, you could write the dump to a FIFO which then is read by the backup process. Arno > > Thanks, > > Achim > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
