On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:35:00PM +0300, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > Catalog is written by the Director, using some supported database engine > (like MySQL). In principle, it don't have to reside on the same computer > with the director, but in this case it obviously has to, since you obviously > don't have another database server at home?
I have already installed mysql on my laptop( it is running debian sid). > > So, if you run backups locally to an external disk, you could back up the > catalog by taking an ascii dump of the database, and copying the dump file > to the same disk used for actual backup data. So Can I just back the directory where the database is? > > And remember to back up your Bacula conf files to that disk, too. I mean, > simply copy them though bacula might also back them up for you, so you'll > don't have to start from the scratch guessing how was your configuration in > case you computer some day crashes. Thanks for this point, I will copy them to a safe place. > > By the way, you never mentioned what OS you have in your laptop. If it's > Linux, no problem. If it's Windows, AFAIK dir and sd are available but > currently unsupported in that environment. So running something else but the > fd on Windows could be a little bit more challenging. I am running debian linux, so I guess that should not be a problem. > > > >> 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. > > > > This shouldn't be a problem for Bacula, if the dynamic ip is registered to > the DNS. Then you'll just use the FQDN of your laptop in the confs, not the > ip address. Without knowing the local network there, I've no idea if this is > possible or not. I am not very familiar with the dns stuff, So I may sound a little dumb here. Each time I ssh to another machine, it would say Last login: Sun May 24 15:38:30 2009 from wireless-165-124-115-104.nuwlan.northwestern.edu so I guess temporarily my hostname(or the FQDN) is wireless-165-124-115-104.nuwlan.northwestern.edu. But this name is always changing because each time I connect to the university network, it assigned me a new ip. So I guess if I can have my hostname(FQDN) fixed, the server can find my laptop using FQDN. I am using dhcp3-client. So I wonder If I can register my desired dns through my client side so each time I connect the dhcp network, my hostname can be registered in the dns server. Thanks for all the helpful advice! -- 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
