On 12/05/11 12:41, Mike Seda wrote: > During my research on the above solution, I read that it's possible to > run multiple storage (and director) daemons. This was very interesting > to me, but I'm just wondering what the reasons would be for doing so.
I'm running two storage daemons, each on a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (cheap SATA NAS device). The reasoning behind this is that we write alternate weeks to each device, so in case of a total failure of one device, we would still have 50% of our backups available. The director lives on an HP Proliant. As to whether this was a *good* idea, time will tell. I went through some tricky work getting it set up, but it seems to be working well now. I'm pretty new to bacula, so don't take what I do as an indication of "best practice". Another benefit we hope to gain from separating storage from director is that we can use our central director to schedule backups, but provide local storage daemons for some of our sites to do high-volume backups to, without the file traffic having to traverse our WAN links to the central storage. You can read a bit more here: http://pyarra.blogspot.com/2011/03/disk-based-backup-solution-bacula.html And a warning: do NOT use mis-matched director and storage daemon versions: http://pyarra.blogspot.com/2011/03/bacula-mis-matched-director-and-storage.html Regards, Philip. -- Philip Yarra System Administrator Radiation Oncology Victoria phone: 0447 502 176 email: pya...@radoncvic.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
