On 06/28/2011 02:24 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We're using Bacula for some backups with three SDs so far, and I wonder if 
> it's possible somehow to allow for client / laptop backups in a good manner. 
> As far as I can see, this will need to either be client-initiated, client 
> saying "I'm alive!" or something, or having a polling process running to 
> check if the client's online for a given period of time.
>
> Is something like this possible or in the works, or is Bacula intended only 
> for server backups?
The simplest way to handle this that I've found is to set up space for
the laptops to rsync to, and the run bacula's scheduled backups against
that (as a bonus, you then also have an immediately-readable copy of the
laptop's files if you need to suddenly recover some accidentally-deleted
file without needing to initiate a bacula restore).  We've got laptop
users here that we CAN'T seem to run full bacula backups on because they
never stay plugged in long enough to finish, so rsync is the only way we
can get "full" backups.

You could, alternatively, set up a way for clients to ssh into the
director with an account permitted to send a "run (their job name)" to
bconsole to initiate a backup manually.

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