On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Richard Bellamy wrote: > On Wed, February 20, 2008 12:53 pm, Dan Langille wrote: >> > >> On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:46 AM, Richard Bellamy wrote: >> >> >>> Hi >>> >>> >>> I am new to bacula and looking forward(!) to using it. >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know if it is possible to backup to a directory (i.e. >>> use a directory as a volume and not a file)?. I have a >>> requirement to be >>> able to modify the backup in-place before a redployment. I am not >>> concerned about file permissions or ownership. Alternatively is is >>> possible to mount a bacula file volume as a filesystem (with fuse >>> for >>> example)? >>> >> >> Can you elaborate up on this requirement? It may help us understand >> how to solve it. >> >> -- >> Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > Hi > > I know this sounds a bit odd but here we go. > > I will be using bacula with it's regular backup/restore facilities > however > I have a requirement for machine independence. I would like to be > able to > boot off the network
This part, I think is yours..... PXE boot or something. This has nothing to do with Bacula. > and download a fileset Download? I think you mean restore. We have to get the terminology right. So far, you have booted up a system via PXE boot. Then it has started up bacula-fd and something somewhere has initiated a restore. I think you misunderstand Bacula. A restore is not automated. You don't download files from the Bacula server as you would an FTP site. A sysadmin runs a command on the bacula console. This starts a restore job. The Director contacts the File Daemon running on the Bacula Client (in your example, that's the machine that just booted). The FD receives the files, and restores them to the ordered location. > that would then reconfigure > itself based on whatever hardware it was deployed to. Yes... you're right. That's vague. This is outside the scope of Bacula. > This fileset would > also need to be managed outside of bacula so we could make changes > to it > and then send those changes to machines in an platform neutral way. A FileSet is a list of files to be backed up. What do you mean by "managed"? I think you are trying to use Bacula as a system configuration tool. A FileSet is sent to the FD and the FD uses that to decide what files to send to the Storage Daemon (SD). The SD places the backed up files into a Volume. When the restore is run, the FD asks the SD for the data. > HTH sorry if it is a bit vague. Apology accepted. -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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
