Hi,

On 02/28/10 10:07 PM, Stan Meier wrote:
> * mehma sarja<mehmasarja AT gmail DOT com>:
>> A hunerd-n-twenty jobs makes me wince. Why not simplify...a couple of ideas
>> and feel free to knock them down:
>
> It's really not as bad as it sounds. A little Perl script parses a
> text file which contains groups of servers with their respective
> passwords, include/exclude lists and so on and generates all client
> definitions, all backup/copy jobs (and job definitions) and all
> filesets on thy fly.

I am currently implementing a ~1k job solution using Bacula and have 
been facing many of the same challenges. Once you find a templating 
mechanism that works for your environment most of the client 
configuration issues disappear.

> This way, one can focus on the servers which need special treatment.
>
> Quickly skimming through the archives of this list (and of course, the
> helpful comments from participants) made everything else quite clear.
>
> The plan is to have the standard three pools (monthly full, weekly
> differential, daily incremental), accompanied by two copy jobs (one
> run daily, one run monthly to create tapes that will go to "The
> Vault").
>
> Everything else is up to trial and error (and more reading, of course:
> concurrency on the device level (5.0.1), TLS communication, deployment
> of bacula-fd through cfengine/puppet).
>
> I'm confident.
>
> Stan
>
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