Ah, I didn't think of that. Make sense. The 7 clients are from 7 districts
across the state. Currently each client backs up to a tape locally.
Recently a request was made to make another copy of backup to be sent to a
NAS at the administrative district. My first thought was just to treat it
as a secondary storage for bacula which I've done before, but with a single
director.
In an event that one of the server goes down, it takes the records of its
backups with it <-- Isn't this is the case even in a normal setup? Unless
you have a backup of the bacula catalog resides somewhere else, then you
wouldn't need to bscan the backup media for restoration.
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net>
wrote:
> On 10/08/17 22:39, Gi Dot wrote:
> > Your understanding is correct. I am not aware that this setup is not
> > supported/possible. I supposed the only way would be to configure a
> > bacula director to handle the jobs that go to FreeNAS.
> >
> > Is there a bacula-dir/fd plugin for FreeNAS? I have only found bacula-sd.
>
> Well, the problem there, I think, is the one Storage shared between
> seven Directors. That's the part that's not supported. Inevitably
> you're going to have multiple Directors trying to ask the same Storage
> to mount different volumes at the same time.
>
> Is there a reason you're running a Director on each client instead of
> just a file daemon and a single coordinating Director? With the
> configuration you have, if one of those seven servers goes down, it
> takes the records of its own backups with it. That means you've got to
> bscan backup media before you can do any disaster-recovery restores.
>
>
>
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