Hello, Shawm,
> I just started working with Bacula (9.0.6) this week and I am in the staging
> phase of things. I currently have a CentOS 7 server set up with most of the
> default settings, with the Dir, SD and MySQL running on the same server in our
> Las Vegas datacenter. I have successfully backed up a couple of CentOS Linux
> servers to the default location of /tmp on this server. Now I’m ready for the
> next step – backing up the data to other servers with dedicated storage.
> We have four locations (including Las Vegas) and each location has its own
> CentOS 7 server with a bunch of storage dedicated for storing backups. I would
> like to keep the Director running on the server in Las Vegas but have backups
> for each location’s clients go to their respective storage servers rather than
> over the WAN to the Director server in Las Vegas.
> What is needed to accomplish this? Do I need to install Bacula with SD on each
> of the storage servers?
Yes,
> If so, how do I let the Director know about the other SD servers and then
> configure the clients to back up their data to a specific SD server for each
> location?
There are different ways of doing it.
The most practical is to create different Pools for each remote SD, specify the
associated Storage directive in each Pool resource, and Schedule each backup
Job of a given location to write backups to the closest Pool/Storage.
> Thanks in advance!
Regards,
> --Shawn
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