On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:23:19PM +0300, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > > Hello, > > I have already deployed bacula to back up a few servers in a lab > > environment. Now I wonder if I can do it on my laptop. > > > > Most of the time I use the laptop at home where I have not network > > connection. But occasionally I will bring it to the campus where I can > > access the university wireless. > > > > I plan to install bacula-dir, sd, and fd all on my laptop and make my > > backup job run hourly. > > Running backup hourly, without network connection? To what media? Sounds a > little bit paranoid to me.
I edit documents at home even when I don't have network connection, that is why I want to run it hourly. Last time I wrongly edited a document and found the latest backup I manually made was 3 days ago.. > > > > and if I had the chance to connect to wireless > > network. I will manually run a job which connects to the storage daemon > > on a server in the lab. > > > > If you plan to install dir and sd to your laptop too, do you really plan to > run backups when not connected to university's network? For example, do you > use some external hard disk as a storage media when not in the network? Yes, I plan to run backups even when I don't have network connectioin for my laptop. I plan to backup the data to another home directory named bacula. backing up to an external hard drive would be a good option too. > > If you plan to backup only to the storage daemon in the campus network, you > actually have no use of the local storage daemon. And if you still use a The problem is most of the time my laptop is disconnected so I need to backup locally first. > local director, you'll have a problem where to keep the catalog -technically > you can keep it on your laptop, but if your laptop crashes, you'll have > trouble with restores if you haven't set up a system to have at least the > catalog available back *before* being able to run bacula restore job. Thanks for reminding me this. So as I understand the catlog thing is written by the storate daemon not the director? > > Maybe just the file daemon is enough, and run the job manually when you know > you'll have the network connection available for a long enough time? This opens me another problem, my laptop ip will be dynamic so It will be hard for the director on a server to find my laptop. I searched the archive and did not find a definitive answer as to dynamically register hostname. But Definetely I will try. So I guess my backup for laptop would be two fold. 1 backup locally no matter I have network or not. on laptop harddrive or an external harddrive. 2 manually backup to server once I get the chance to connect to network.(first I need to solve the dynamic ip problem) Thanks for your help, Timo, I appreciate it a lot. > > > > My question is is it a good idea to do so, or if there is better > > solutions for my situation? > > > > Thanks for any insights and ideas. > > > > -- > > Zhengquan > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Zhengquan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
