On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Johnny SSH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me, I have a network with a few servers (3) and
> clients (5) which use the Linux platform. I have managed to find out how to
> connect multiple clients to the system and have them backed up!! :-)
>
> I use a Debian Etch based server which is the main server and also doubles
> up as the backup server, using a second HD for backups.
>
> For this I use a 500GB HD, but as the drives of the client machines are
> large I have to select which part of the file systems will be backed up.
>
> Please bare with me if these questions seem trivial but I have checked the
> Bacula wiki and searched Google too for answers with no results.
>
> My questions are as follows:
>
> 1. In the director I have created a few clients and jobs for those clients
> with multiple filesets. To be able to restore the individual filesets to
> each machine do I need to create individual restore jobs?
No, one restore job is ok
>
>
>
> Currently the restore set is the default template:
>
> [# Standard Restore template, to be changed by Console program
> # Only one such job is needed for all Jobs/Clients/Storage ...]
>
> However I'm assuming this will only backup what is set as the default
> fileset?
>
>
> 2. For my multiple clients do I need to use multiple pools or will 1 pool
> store data for each machine individually?
I am using one pool for each client
>
>
>
> 3. Can I restore individual files with Bacula? Say for example server 5
> lost
> a config file /etc/program/conf.config is there a way to restore just that
> one file and not the whole file system? Also is there a way to view the
> files in the database?
>
You can restore one file only
To view the files use the bconsole and then choose restore and during the
process you will be asked what do you want to restore, and you will be able
to see the files
>
>
> 4. I am confused between the GUI's of Bacula, on the wiki it says that
> there
> is something called bat. How can I obtain this and what command do I need
> to
> issue to view it? (my servers don't have GUI's so I will need to do this
> via
> a remote X session through SSH!)
>
I am using the Webmin, you can manage the Bacula from any machine on your
network
>
>
> 5. This maybe obsolete if it refers to Q4. however bconsole has a graphical
> mode it says from the man and help pages. What command do I need to run
> this?
>
>
>
> 6. Out of the GUI's mentioned can anyone view the backed up files of the
> machines in the pool as a list say? If not is there something that can? I
> have installed Bacula-web however it only shows statistics of backups and
> not actually 'what' has been backed up!
>
you can use the webmin or the bconsole for that
>
> Many thanks for any replies, sorry so many questions but they are specific
> and I am really new to client/server backups even with the previous reading
> I've done to get this far!
>
> Kaya
Eitan
>
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