Hey there,

 

I have several machines over the internet and I'm in the middle of configuring Bacula to act as the primary backup server for all.

 

I have one storage device for now which is on the backup server machine, mapped as /storage/ with a 1.1TB disk space with raid 5.

 

I'm trying to figure out which setup is best for me as I got lightly confused with all the terms of devices, medias, pools, etc.

Since I only have one device and one  storage daemon, can I only assign one pool to it ?

I previously tried to assign each client his own pool but I got mounting issues as a result.

 

I can easily accomplish to have /storage/backup/file to hold all information of all directories of all servers

But I suppose it would be better to have the next setup in place:

/storage/backup/client1/hdtocs

/storage/backup/client1/htlogs

/storage/backup/client2/hdtocs

/storage/backup/client2/htlogs

 

One more question:

If I assign a pool to each job somehow hence having the data written to a separate file, will having several volumes to that "file"(file0001,file0002) help me in any way other than splitting the backups to small files?

 

 

Any thoughts?

Thanks!