> 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.
>
Can the client machines access your storage machine directly?
Although backup is initiated by the director the client starts its own
communication with the storage.

>
> 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.
>
>
This should not be a problem.

>
>
> 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
>
>
For this you will need multiple storage devices.

>
> 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?
>

If you want recycling to work you will need more than 1 volume in each
pool. The reason is bacula will recycle an entire volume at once so at
that point you will have no backups left for a client. I recommend
never getting into this situation and to always have at least 1 full
backup for each client.

John

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