Re: [Bacula-users] sanity check on a distributed local backup strategy?
On 2/25/2011 11:15 PM, Mehma Sarja wrote: On 2/25/11 2:50 PM, dev001 wrote: Sanity check? It is an excellent idea and efficient usage of resources. I have a laptop user who rarely gets backed up - a local storage solution would be ideal for delayed copying. Backups are initiated by the Director. Connectivity must exist. The Dir contacts the FD and tells it: backup this File Set to this SD. If you have no connectivity to the Dir, backups will not be run. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] sanity check on a distributed local backup strategy?
On 2/26/11 1:19 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/25/2011 11:15 PM, Mehma Sarja wrote: On 2/25/11 2:50 PM, dev001 wrote: Sanity check? It is an excellent idea and efficient usage of resources. I have a snip If you have no connectivity to the Dir, backups will not be run. Oopsie, looks like that is an accurate assessment. Nothing against any backup scheme, nor any solution be it Bacula, Amanda, etc - but these things are designed for always-on, always-connected systems. Enter a mobile email device, a roaming laptop and things get harder to backup. There should be a way to backup a laptop to a cloud like dropbox. So, if a mobile device can run a complete dir. fd and sd then it can backup. non-windows laptops can. Is anyone doing something like this? Mehma -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] sanity check on a distributed local backup strategy?
hi, to date, my backup strategy across many, geo-distributed desktops (all Linux, fwiw) has been the usual hodge-podge of local remote rsync scripts, gui-driven LuckyBackup runs, etc. having grown organically, it's now an unweildly mess. Bacula's my primary 'contender' for a solution. i've read through much of what it CAN do. certainly flexible, with countless options ... i'm seeking advice/opinion on whether what i'd like to do is a sane application -- namely, every desktop being setup as both a -fd -sd, with frequent backups going to localhost neighboring -sd, less frequent to local file-servers, and occasional to centralized servers. my primary goals are: leverage existing assets, increase redundancy of storage decrease WAN traffic atm, I'm considering a tape-less environment, backing up only to spinning hard drives. in particular, with such an immense amount of cheap storage in each desktop (2TB is nickels-n-dimes these days), and, tbh, most of it unused, I'm considering doing 'frequent' backups from one machine to numerous others within a given single office workgroup, followed, perhaps by immediate or otherwise scheduled CopyJobs, by additional backup to centralize, global storage. chatting in #bacula, i gather that there's no harm, no foul (functionally, technically, etc) with each machine being both an fd an sd, just with the common-sense admonition to think it through 1st. Sanity check? thanks. -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
