> I am in the process of switching our backup system from just rsync > and tar to Bacula. I've got it running nicely in a lab with 2 > Clients but having trouble planning a strategy for going live. I've > got about 150 machines that need backing up. I'd prefer to use just > one director to manage all the Clients. Has anyone implemented > Bacula in this way? If so do you have any suggestions or example confs? > At times I have had about 1/2 that many clients.
I have my director, database and storage on 3 different 64 bit gentoo linux boxes. None of these machines were bought to run bacula alone as they run other key system tasks. The director and storage are on dual processor 2GHz Opteron 246s with 4GB of memory and the postgres database is on an Athlon64 3200 with 2GB of memory. > I'm worried about how large the bacula-dir.conf will become with so > many jobs, pools, etc. It would be nice if the conf could take a > glob include like /etc/bacula/clients/*conf or something. The > documentation is very good but seems geared for much fewer Client > configurations. > You can use the @ syntax to include additional files. I have divided my bacula-dir.conf file many times. @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-filesets.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobs.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobdefs.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-clients.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-storage.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-pools.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-schedules.conf And some of these (like clients) are divided again for windows and linux. > I plan to backup to File across several storage arrays and would > prefer to keep the Volumes per Clients (e.g. web22-vol, web23-vol, > mysql4-vol, etc) doing a weekly full and daily incremental. > I have way more pools than that but I have a lot of need to do archival so most of pools are a result of that. > John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
