On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Isaac D. Newton
> <isaac AT isaac-newton.com DOT au> wrote:
>> I am beginning my implementation of Bacula, there are a couple of things 
>> about the way I would like to use Bacula that I need to clarify.  I have 
>> three physical sites I would like to back up, each with their own storage, 
>> locally machines will store bare metal restore info but I would like to 
>> duplicate mission critical data between a specific spare site for each site 
>> for Disaster Recovery. ie.  site1 > site1 & site 2 , site2 > site2 & site3 , 
>> site3 > site3 & site1
>>
>> 1.  I would like to use FDs' and SDs' in physically separate sites, 
>> connected via DSL VPN, is it possible to backup data to a remote site that 
>> doesn't host a Dir, only FD and SD.
>>
> As long as the director can communicate directly with the fd and sd machines.
>
>>
>> 2.  If you use compression, which component actually compresses the data, 
>> does the Director actually compress the data, as I would like the local 
>> machine to compress the data before transfer or if for local storage on a 
>> remote machine to the Director will the local machine do the compression.
>>
>>
> The fd does the compression. I assume you are not using tape.
>
> John
>



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John M. Drescher

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