Goodday, I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one of them will be connected at a time. Is that possible/feas
Author: Heitor Faria <heitor AT bacula.com DOT br>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:31:03 -0300
Hendrik, I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to separate storage servers in a round robin fashion. Typically only one of them will be connected at a time. What about configurin
Author: Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:41:19 -0500
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu> wrote: Start with the last full backup and then restore the incrementals/differentials after that as in normal recovery m
If they both have sufficient disk space, then I suggest configuring the two servers in a two-node Pacemaker cluster using DRBD shared storage. Bacula Dir and clients will always see the cluster as a
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:35:41 -0500
That would be OK if the goal was HA, but it's the opposite of saving electricity. If you have to turn them on manually, you might as well do one extra manual step and mount the filesystem. You could
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:15:23 -0500
PS the really dumb trick would be to give each of them the same ip address and make sure you never turn 2 on at the same time. Then autofs will automagically mount the right storage. ;-) -- Dimitri M
Except that you would have to turn them both on for a restore. The cluster (with only one node running at a time) prevents having to boot a server just to run a restore. If you don't do many restores
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:19:12 -0500
Well, you'll need to turn on the one(s) where needed volumes are. So yeah, you'd have to make sure your backup sets don't spill over to another server or you may have to turn on more than one. DRBD w
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu> wrote: Looking at the Bacula architecture, I was hoping for a bit more intelligence on the Director side, but that doesn
Author: Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk AT bmrb.wisc DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:17:38 -0500
IME bacula works like a charm as long as your storage is a single filesystem. So depending on how much your time is worth, it may actually be cheaper in the long run to buy a 12+2 supermicro, set up